Recently, I have received invitations to work related training events, all on the topic of “getting to the next level,” or in my world, making the jump from middle management to executive leadership. This is in addition to webinars, segments … Continue reading
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In an excellent post this morning in the Harvard Business Review, What High-Quality Revenue Looks Like, Anthony Tjan makes a straightforward but all too often ignored point, Focus on growth and growth alone is always a temporary strategy. Over time, … Continue reading
Sometimes an issue related to engagement and service is so self-obviating, it is just a matter of applied common sense. From the customer’s perspective (whether internal or external), the response will be praise if they are the recipient of the … Continue reading
Review: What is Diffusion? In the introduction to the topic of diffusion here and here, I mentioned that Diffusion of Innovations, a study of innovation, sociology and communication written over fifty years ago is still relevant in our present time. You … Continue reading
As stated in my first post on this topic, Everett Rogers’ work of work fifty years ago, Diffusion of Innovations was so insightful that it still proves helpful in this present time regarding the spread of ideas, and its application … Continue reading
Fifty years ago, Everett Rogers wrote a work on business and society that is still relevant to this day. The work is the well known, Diffusion of Innovations. While it may be hard to believe that a book from an … Continue reading
Last week, the news of a major Hewlett-Packard write-down of $8.8 billion due to problems with its acquisition of Autonomy, is of course, nothing new. According to the Wall Street Journal, H-P’s problems are cited as follows, “that Autonomy made “outright misrepresentations” to inflate … Continue reading
A window of opportunity is a magic moment, as it were, in the time span of opportunity for a product, service, or nowadays, your personal brand. It could be argued that the winner in the race for opportunity does not … Continue reading
A History of Entrepreneurship As someone who grew up with entrepreneurial parents, I can say without hesitation that there is no job experience that can completely compare with the rewards and perils of such a career path. Although many would … Continue reading
Reputation matters. Bad reputations can hurt, and even damage a name, brand, business or organization for decades. Think of some California cities and their struggles in recent years ranging from a dereliction of duty all the way to outright fraud. … Continue reading
Way back in the early 1990s during my undergraduate business studies, we began learning about various predicted changes that were going to occur in the structure of leadership throughout corporate America, and all organizations. Sixteen years later in graduate school, … Continue reading
In my undergraduate studies (about a hundred years ago), in addition to logic, I also took a course on ethics that I found terribly interesting. I found many of the topics readily applicable to the world around us in a … Continue reading