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April 4, 2008

Discovery Driven Strategy:  Predicting the Path for a Toy Shop

Many of you know that I’ve been following the progress of G. Willikers, a toy shop that opened in Sacramento, CA, in the summer of 2006.  I got interested in their story initially by an… Read more »

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March 31, 2008

Expose Your Company’s Blind Spots

Rita McGrath has posted at the Harvard Business Review blog.  Is your company unintentionally keeping your most senior people from getting the feedback they most need? It can easily happen as an unintended consequence of… Read more »

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February 20, 2008

Debt got way out of hand

It’s stunning to read about how leveraged our economy is, and how painful the de-leveraging process is likely to be.  Still, there are bound to be opportunities for the enterprising in all the pain around… Read more »

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February 19, 2008

Analysts’ asymmetrical recommendations

One of the most interesting aspects of our financial markets is a fundamental asymmetry in reality versus analyst recommendations.  Simple math suggests that half of all stocks will under-perform the market average, yet analysts persist… Read more »

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February 4, 2008

The case against case studies

In a terrific article which just came out in the February 4, 2008 edition of Business Week, author Geoff Gloeckler describes how Columbia Business School is getting away from conventional case studies, instead using ‘decision… Read more »

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January 28, 2008

MarketBusters out in Russian!

We’re very pleased that MarketBusters has now been translated into many languages – including Japanese, Chinese (3 versions!), Thai, Portugese and others.  The latest (at least I think) is a version in Russian, which arrived… Read more »

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January 22, 2008

Pfizer’s Office of the Future and the Great Irony of Information Work

It has long fascinated me that an entire class of information work that used to be done by trained professionals is now being muddled through by the rest of us.  I’m referring of course to… Read more »

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January 14, 2008

Private Equity players having to actually run businesses – Comment 2.0

Last summer, I thought it hilarious that the CEO’s of private equity firms were being marveled over – that they actually had to run their companies to create value rather than simply engaging in financial… Read more »

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January 11, 2008

Prediction is hard, especially about the future – guru department

How wrong can a guru be?  Every so often, I run across some confident—but wrong statement regarding the state of something or other, and just this afternoon (while hunting for something else) ran across one… Read more »

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January 4, 2008

When you get results – the right time to celebrate

Doesn’t it drive you crazy when people hold big celebrations for nothing more than starting a big strategic move?  Like the champagne that flows when M&A deals are announced, or the party accompanying a project… Read more »

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December 17, 2007

Tips for Cognitive Fitness

An article in the November Harvard Business Review recommends the following program for exercising your brain: Manage by walking about Read funny books Play games Act out (improvisation and acting) Find what you’re not learning… Read more »

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December 10, 2007

Here’s a scary statistic – consumer debt on revolving credit

For years, it has bugged me that there seems to be no political will to set up rules that would keep people from getting in over their heads on credit card debt, or that would… Read more »

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