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Leadership in Uncertain Times: Creating resilience in the shadow of the fiscal cliff
When it comes to politics these days, it feels a bit like Laurel and Hardy's old line about "another fine mess". With the fiscal cliff imminent and absolutely no clarity as to how the issues involved… Read more »
Leadership in Uncertain Times: Creating resilience in the shadow of the fiscal cliff
When it comes to politics these days, it feels a bit like Laurel and Hardy’s old line about “another fine mess”. With the fiscal cliff imminent and absolutely no clarity as to how the issues involved… Read more »
Entrepreneurs - be parsimonious!
I was recently asked by a reporter to comment on the things that entrepreneurs need to purchase to start up a business. Actually, I suggested, entrepreneurs shouldn't purchase anything – the goal should be to… Read more »
Guest Blog: Are we inadvertently silencing the young talent in manufacturing?
My friend and colleague, Ron Pierantozzi (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) , who works with me in the consultancy Cameron and Associates wrote this blog post and I thought it was… Read more »
Might you be collateral damage in some other industry’s success?
Over at my blog at HBR, I made the observation that for many companies, the most difficult competitors to deal with are often not even in their own industries or selling similar products. Instead, it's… Read more »
Churn, longevity and the FTSE 100
For a project that ended up taking me a lot longer than I had hoped, I've been doing some research into the FTSE 100, that index of super-large companies traded on the London Stock Exchange… Read more »
Cisco’s John Chambers and the dangers of “change management”
There is a fascinating interview with Cisco's John Chambers in Bloomberg's Businessweek. In it, he refers to some issues that are of increasing importance to more and more companies in increasingly competitive sectors of our… Read more »
Losing Ralph Biggadike - The World is a Poorer Place without him
Ralph passed away last week. I am staring unhappily at those words even as I write them. You can read the school's official note about Ralph at this link. My memories of Ralph go back… Read more »
The IBM EBO Process is one I’ve admired for a while
One of the most persistent problems with innovation is that the structures and practices that foster doing something new are quite different from those that foster getting great results from today's core business. A company… Read more »
Recording of Webinar “Five way to Tell if Your Innovation Process is Dysfunctional” now available
Those of you who couldn't make the webinar in real time can tune in to it in recorded fashion by visiting this link: http://columbiabiz.webex.com/columbiabiz/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=5550107&rKey=a154aeebc7846a27 During the 30-minute complimentary webinar, I discuss five of the most… Read more »