Successful business strategy is the outworking of vision, extraordinary vision. Ken Blanchard has summed up the issue well in his classic anthological work, Leading at a Higher Level: The biggest impediment blocking most managers from being great leaders is the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Strategic Planning
Which Came First? An article written years ago, Why Supply and Demand Are Hard to Measure, illustrates some of what I see continuing in our present time, where our market is simply referred to as, “weird times.” In the article … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
Earnings Too Good To Be True? Financial news, blogs, tweets, feeds and our own experiences all inform us that earnings are not all equal. Anthony and Breitner, in their small overview of accounting fundamentals highlight the limitations of financial statement … Continue reading
Recently I have found myself running virtually every business topic I consider though the grid of the social era. This is particularly interesting to me since there are a number of principles in business that are timeless in nature, but … Continue reading
In our present time, where social is the model and connected is the norm, where is the disconnect between good ideas within the firm, and the application of innovation to make those ideas happen? In my MBA program, we were … Continue reading