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You’ve Got to Lose Sleep at Night
“If you don’t take losses (errors) seriously, if it doesn’t really bother you, I don’t think you are going to be a great leader. You’ve…
July 17, 2012
Opportunity Meetings
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. “All one can hope to get by solving a problem is to restore normality. All…
July 3, 2012
How to Get Ahead in Business
These quotations are taken from a May 18, 2012, Wall Street Journal article by John Bussey, “How Women Can Get Ahead: Advice from Female CEOs,”…
June 21, 2012
Wantology
Wantology is a process for clarifying what we REALLY want rather than what we think we want. Most of us do not put a lot…
May 17, 2012
Repeatability: Staying True to Your Core
“Repeatability” is both the theme and the title of a new book by Chris Zook and James Allen, consultants with Bain & Company. Great companies…
May 10, 2012
Pre-Fail
It is a lot easier to talk the talk than walk the walk. This is especially true when it comes to quality, excellence, and crisp…
May 3, 2012
Workafrolics
The best achievers in life are NOT workaholics, they are “workafrolics.” They enjoy what they do, they are invigorated by it, and enthralled by the…
April 12, 2012
Why Smart People Do Dumb Things: Good Intentions Gone Awry
Systems theory states that organizations are systems of connected and interdependent groups, none of which can be understood in isolation from each other. Unfortunately, individuals…
March 29, 2012
The Myth of Hard Work
It is a cornerstone of the American Way that if an individual works hard he or she will be successful. It’s true, yet it is…
March 6, 2012
“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” — Peter F. Drucker; 1909–2005
Peter Drucker was one of the 20th century’s most highly-regarded experts on business. He was an influential thinker and writer on management theory and practice.…
February 2, 2012
Four Thoughts on Teamwork
#1 “In teamwork, silence is not golden, it’s deadly.” — Mark Sanborn #2 “What we need to do is learn to work in the system,…
January 5, 2012