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Zen Habits offered up a brief guide to life on Monday. You may consider this a little off topic for this blog. I will argue. Part of being a good leader is finding balance. less TV, more reading less shopping, more outdoors less clutter, more space less rush, more slowness less consuming, more creating less [...]

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I have been working on a series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. We’ve talked about financials, how to get a handle on your customers and understanding youremployees in an effort to get them more engaged, and finally, we talked about processes. When you walk into a situation [...]

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I have been working on a series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. I would take a stab at a scenario an MBA candidate/intern threw at me. So far we have talked about financials, how to get a handle on your customers and understanding your employees [...]

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I really enjoyed this video from Jason Fried of 37signals fame. He explains the farce that is the modern workplace. Where no work actually gets done. This is well worth the six minutes of your time. Fried is a visionary.

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I have been working on a series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. I would take a stab at a scenario an MBA candidate/intern threw at me. So far we have talked about financials and how to get a handle on your customers. Its all about [...]

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Last week, I started as series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. Inspired by a promising MBA student that is doing an internship with us, I thought I would take a stab at a scenario she threw at me. Last week-ish we talked about financials. [...]

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I started writing “a” blog on this day in 2004. I cannot believe it has been six years. I’ve been through a lot in that time.  I was running a telemarketing operation at the time. Then I had back surgery. I tried to launch an outsourcing business with some partners. That failed. I went to [...]

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Last week, I started as series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. Inspired by a promising MBA student that is doing an internship with us, I thought I would take a stab at a scenario she threw at me. This week, let’s talk about financials. [...]

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This continues our series on how to run a successful turnaround – or – The Mike Lally Way. Maybe we’ll just call this RAST. Running A Successful Turnaround. The Mike Lally Way is just way too lame. Today, I will take a holistic, high-level view and in future posts, I will look at each element [...]

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Quote from the latest Tom Peters blog: Implementation—at the level of “chief” of a 4-person project team in IS—is and always has been and always will be primarily about politics. In fact it is axiomatic: Effective implementers are effective politicians, regardless of any synonym you may choose to substitute for politics. Wow. This hit home [...]

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