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Archives for 2015

November 30, 2015

Learning to navigate the teaching tightrope as a women

An interesting column by Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg made me think of some of the ups and downs of learning to teach in an environment where most of the people around you are men…. Read more »

Filed Under: Women's leadership

November 30, 2015

Networking parasites – this one struck a chord

Margaret Morford published an excellent piece in the New York Times about how people can avoid becoming what she calls “networking parasites“.   She picks up on a number of things that would-be networkers should be… Read more »

Filed Under: Careers

November 29, 2015

New Women’s Leadership Course to be Launched in June

Anyone who has been following the coverage of women in the workplace, for example, this series in the Wall Street Journal, knows the general story line.  Professional women enter workplaces in numbers roughly equal to men,… Read more »

Filed Under: Academic Concerns, Business School, Executive Education, Women's leadership

October 28, 2015

Now in development: Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship On-Line

What if you could take teams of people or individual contributors with an innovation mandate and have them go through a state of the art, hands-on and very applied journey through the essence of innovation… Read more »

Filed Under: Business School, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Executive Education, Profitable Organic Growth, Uncategorized

September 27, 2015

Implications of the Unicorn Economy

In my most recent newsletter, I suggested that businesses would do well to anticipate the consequences of a valuation bubble bursting in Silicon Valley with so many private companies valued at more than a billion… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Opportunities, Thought Sparks, Transient Advantage

June 9, 2015

Ideas for a new business model for F. A. O. Schwarz

Well, no sooner had the digital ink dried on my piece about F. A. O. Schwarz closing their famous Fifth Avenue shop, when I received a communication from the company saying that I had it… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Strategy, Innovation, Opportunities

June 1, 2015

Looking forward to the mach49 Mothership Blitz on Friday

As someone who has spent much of my life watching organizations fall victim to what I call the ‘transient advantage‘ economy, I’ve always been puzzled that despite its obvious importance, large organizations do a lot more… Read more »

Filed Under: Innovation, Innovation Flops, Profitable Organic Growth, Transient Advantage

April 29, 2015

Corporate entrepreneurship’s latest incarnation-the virtual startup

In this insightful blog post, Steve Sokol runs through the pluses and minuses of being part of a startup within a large corporation, what he calls a “virtual startup.”  The pluses are many – a… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Thought Sparks, Transient Advantage

March 16, 2015

Workers of the World…upsides and downsides of the on-demand workforce

In an article that appeared the other day on CNBC, reporter Cadie Thompson mulls over the effects of all these on-demand companies that make their money by connecting people with tasks to be done or… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Careers, Thought Sparks

March 11, 2015

Lost that Lovin’ Feeling? Target (and other) CEO’s try to get the love back

In my column over at Fortune, I note that a common pattern for companies who get themselves into trouble is that they somehow ‘lose touch’ with their customers.  I attribute this in many ways to… Read more »

Filed Under: Strategy Execution, Thought Sparks

February 27, 2015

4 Ways To Improve Unproductive Meetings

In my Experts column at the Wall Street Journal, I describe the kinds of behavior that sap energy, time and general usefulness out of meetings, and suggest four specific remedies. Have a look.

Filed Under: Strategy Execution

February 6, 2015

Why the failure of Google Glass Might be a Boon to Google

It’s official. The nerdy glasses with augmented reality and all kinds of image capturing technologies have been pulled from the market. Already, the pundits are dissecting what went wrong. It is indeed a juicy story,… Read more »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation Flops, Opportunities

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