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In case you haven’t noticed – in the last 30-50 years – the world has moved on. This has been made very clear in the last 3 years or so where the U.S. has gone through the worst financial crisis since the depression. The way we work has changed. You can’t be a cog in [...]

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I have been jamming at work. Lots of change. Lots of busy. Got myself promoted. I’ve been stressing about not having posted anything recently. I just finished reading a great piece from Knowledge@Wharton about the leadership lessons from Shakespeare’s “Henry V” – that of the famous “band of brothers” quote. If you haven’t seen the [...]

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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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Quick read from Fast Company about the difference between Leadership and Management. When asked to define, Randy Komisar  said: Management is more operationally focused. It’s more of a supervisory role of setting priorities, allocating resources, and directing the execution. Leadership is more forward thinking, more about enabling the organization, empowering individuals, developing the right people, [...]

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We’re coming up on the sixth year anniversary of writing this blog. It has come in a few different looks. I started it as “Diligentia” which is just laughable now. I really can’t remember why i thought that was a good idea. BUT – I did start off with a tagline of “a blog about [...]

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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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We have an intern working with us. She is getting her MBA. She still has that new car smell on her. By that I mean – she hasn’t become bitter and jaded. She is still full of the possibility that most business problems are easy to fix. If only we applied ourselves. She’s taken to [...]

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“Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.” Link to NYT obituary.

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Caught a post on Personal Branding Blog re: the essential skills we need to have in order to succeed in this “new world”. Very critical, very forward thinking. Here’s the list (hit the link to see the post in full): Social media and web 2.0 know how. (Aren’t we past 2.0 yet?) The ability to [...]

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