This article, entitled "the best way to use the last five minutes of your day" made me think about a lot of the executives I work with who are just too busy to reflect on anything at… Read more »
Thought Sparks
Profit from the Core – A growth theory is put to something of an empirical test and OUCH!
One of the more popular books on growth in recent years has been Profit From the Core, a book that suggests firms should focus their efforts on core and adjacent markets to find growth opportunities. … Read more »
Profit from the Core - A growth theory is put to something of an empirical test and OUCH!
One of the more popular books on growth in recent years has been Profit From the Core, a book that suggests firms should focus their efforts on core and adjacent markets to find growth opportunities. … Read more »
Free Download of Interview in Harvard Business Review for the first 100 subscribers
This month's Harvard Business Review features the partial transcript of an interview that I did with Sarah Cliffe on how one can tell if your business model is in trouble. The Review has offered free digital… Read more »
Learning from Failure
A MBA Admissions site cites Rita McGrath: It’s tempting to gloss over all past mistakes or errors in judgment when you’re immersed in the MBA admissions process; after all, competition for a place in a… Read more »
Nice start to the year - Directors’ publication recommends Discovery Driven Growth
A good friend and very successful publicist, Mark Fortier was kind enough to pass along the information that Discovery Driven Growth has been recommended by the editors of "Agenda" magazine, a magazine aimed at corporate directors. … Read more »
Cloud Computing? Not So Fast—Unintended Consequences of Recent Disclosures
So the future was supposed to be upon us: a world in which, untethered by the need to be physically anywhere, we would all put our information in the cloud and access it by any… Read more »
Cloud Computing? Not So Fast—Unintended Consequences of Recent Disclosures
So the future was supposed to be upon us: a world in which, untethered by the need to be physically anywhere, we would all put our information in the cloud and access it by any… Read more »
Managing Failure
Blogging Innovation refers to Entrepreneurial Mindset in their blog entitled Managing Failure
BBQ Parties for guys? Release your inner Avon!
Among the sites I enjoy visiting is Springwise, a web site dedicated to spotting interesting new ideas from all around the world. This week they discovered a doozy – Barbecue parties targeted at men, at… Read more »
When life hands you lemons…AOL Style
What can you say about a 25-year-old web portal that has lost its grip on the public imagination? I refer of course to AOL, which for many of us was our first introduction to the… Read more »
The corruption of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
By now, most people are familiar with Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk business. Here's how it works: if you have a job that needs to be done that really requires a person to do it, you can post… Read more »