Insights and ideas

In response to a reporter’s question about how to make more effective presentations, I offered the following perspective on cardinal sins. These form the basis of a short session I teach in at Columbia Executive… Read more »

I learned this from a participant in a Columbia Executive Education program (Creating Breakthrough Strategy. He runs a luxury hotel there (the Hotel Padma Bali). He told our group about a tradition in Bali that… Read more »

I ran across a posting actually recruiting candidates into a school’s Ph.D. program in Management. This is very bad news for the field – I remember when I first joined, there were about 5 jobs… Read more »

In a discovery that I made while researching how companies cascase communication, I ran across the following little snippet: In a recent survey of 1,103 employees 86% of employees reported that their bosses thought they… Read more »

So things are getting desperate in Japan. All those years of recession have resulted in deep cuts in the available workforce just as it’s roaring economy is expanding demand. So what are the second-order effects… Read more »

So things are getting desperate in Japan. All those years of recession have resulted in deep cuts in the available workforce just as it’s roaring economy is expanding demand. So what are the second-order effects… Read more »

This comment was in response to a reporter’s inquiry about Gillette and the 5-bladed razor The blade madness in my opinion has to do with the longstanding competition between the major players in the industry…. Read more »

I was recently asked by a reporter how grocery stores could compete with Wal-Mart. Here are some ideas.To compete against the ‘everyday low price’ theme of Wal-Mart, supermarkets have to find some way of differentiating… Read more »

I was recently asked by a reporter how grocery stores could compete with Wal-Mart. Here are some ideas.To compete against the ‘everyday low price’ theme of Wal-Mart, supermarkets have to find some way of differentiating… Read more »

I was recently asked by a reporter to comment on the pros and cons of municipal Wi-Fi networks (which could also extend to Wi-Fi networks based in libraries and public schools, not to mention your… Read more »

I was recently asked by a reporter to comment on the pros and cons of municipal Wi-Fi networks (which could also extend to Wi-Fi networks based in libraries and public schools, not to mention your… Read more »

I’m just back from a most amazing visit to Dubai, where I learned a thing or two about how strategic a government can be. Dubai’s leaders have figured out how to make the place attractive… Read more »