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I wanted to capture this series of articles by Don Sull of the Financial Times. I can’t share via Twitter from the office so I am opting to compile here. The series looks at The First Jesuits by John W. O’Malley. Sull and O’Malley hold up the Jesuits as a group that practices strategic agility. [...]

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The latest issue of Strategy + Business has a great article on Special Operations forces: “What’s So Special About Special Ops?”. Readers of this blog will know that I am a total Special Ops fanboy. I have been since playing with my first GI Joe in the 70′s. The article focuses on the training required [...]

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TP has issued a challenge that supports his on-going efforts at all-around EXCELLENCE. Are you developing the people around you? Please list. Right now! The 5 people! Whose development you have contributed to! Directly! And Profoundly! In the last 24 months! I do think that is too long of a time frame. How about the [...]

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Just finished an article from strategy+business on the advertising god – David Ogilvy. Great article, well worth your time but a couple of points about training really resonated with me. To Ogilvy training was critical. Hire the best people and then train them. He believed that training was “the glue that held together the organization.” [...]

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About one month ago, there was a bit of debate around so-called Management Gurus. Which lead to a bit of a dust up between Tom Peters and Jim Collins. There was talk about the lack of science behind Tom Peters MUST READ In Search of Excellence. Peters responded by talking about ISOE in the simple [...]

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Just finished reading Roughneck Nine-One: The Extraordinary Story of a Special Forces A-Team at War by Sgt. 1st Class Frank Antenori, US Army (Retired). Loved it. If you like a solid, action-packed ride – this is a book for you. I read a lot of military history and analysis. I am a geek this way. [...]

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I suppose I should start this review off with a disclaimer. I am Alan Webber’s target audience. He was a managing editor of the Harvard Business Review and the cofounding editor of Fast Company. I am a card carrying member of the Fast Company Nation and read HBR whenever something catches my eye.I am a [...]

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Ruth Smith writes a great post on the Tom Peters site on an engaged workforce. She says: “…engagement is more likely to occur when managers purposefully include, and share power with, people within the organisation, co-creating a way of working together with their teams.” You can do all the employee sat surveys you want, have as many [...]

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great link from 37signals. I will pull the whole quote here: “It is certain that every organization has too many meetings, and far too many poorly designed ones. The main reason we don’t make meetings more productive is that we don’t value our time properly. The people who call meetings and those who attend them are not thinking about [...]

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Ok…first a programming note of sorts: I have launched mikelally.net! I haven’t cracked the code on making typepad play nice with the new site but I am working on it. I would like to thank Harry Joiner from marketingheadhunter.com for his guidance and counsel (as always). Mikelally.net will serve as my top level place-holder on [...]

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