Markets go up. Markets go down. Life goes on.Competitors appear. Competitors fade. Life goes on.Drama Advances. Drama recedes. Life goes on.We’re up today. We’re down tomorrow. Life goes on. Original writing date: September 11,…;
Business & Investment
It’s Just a Case of Child-like Openness
I have a friend who has been using PCs since the late seventies. She talks about those days and the progression of the PC the way our grandparents talk about the development of the telephone…;
CEO vs. COO
You can probably rate the effectiveness of a CEO by the stack of papers on his desk. The larger the stack, the less he or she is probably operating as a CEO. The larger the…;
State of Mind
I happened to be sending a marketing message to the marketing and creative team. In the process of doing that, it occurred to me it was probably worthwhile publishing. It sounded like this. In the…;
Self-Justification
I wrote an article in October 1996. It was called Lifestyle Inertia, and it suggested what I would consider to be one of the major impediments to positive change in somebody’s life. I acknowledge it…;
Heroes Don’t Win on the Defense
As I am dictating this article, I am watching my little boy play in the last soccer game of the season. They had a stellar season, even for six-year-olds. They managed—by luck, crook, and alignment…;
CEO Rules of Engagement
I was having a conversation the other day with someone who works for one of our companies, and he asked me to describe what I considered to be the characteristics of an effective CEO. The…;
Common Change Management Pitfalls
Poor communications (e.g., of goals, methods, motives, commitment)Unclear rationale for changeLack of understanding of the urgency of changeInadequate employee mobilization and engagementLack of courage and risk-taking (may cause change to fail by default)Complacency (resistance to…;
When you look in the rearview mirror, do you see a 12-ton 18-wheeler accelerating toward you?
The New Economy is here. And, it is accelerating rapidly. Not one of us in business does not feel at some intellectual or guttural level that our businesses are in crisis, or, at the very…;
The “Secrets” of Being Successful
I was having a conversation this past Friday night with some neighbors about what it takes to be successful in business. In the middle of the conversation, I was reminded of observing from time to…;