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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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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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Read an interesting blurb in Business Week – no link because I can’t find one. Whatever BW. The article is: Are Your Employees Just Biding Their Time? The first point is that people aren’t quitting their jobs. So that’s good – we haven’t completely lost our minds. People see 17+% total unemployment and think to [...]

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Tom Peters poses a thought provoking question here: Why does corporate America devote so little time to training? He compares corporate training to military training. The military trains ALL THE TIME. I just watched the Marines Corp Mountain Survival reality tv show the other day. I love Tom’s question of closing stores 1 day a [...]

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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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In support of Friday’s post on the end of the cubicle wars, I came across an article from Roll Call detailing the changing face of the organization. The article talks about 3 factors that will affect the way we organize ourselves in the coming years. Emergence of Ecological/Epidemiological View of Markets and Behaviors. Rise of [...]

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I recently started getting involved with a non-profit. It offers a program for 6th-12th graders on creating, funding and launching a business.(It is amazingly cool. I am helping them with some operational elements as they prep to expand from 4 schools to 17!) Seth has a compelling post about business models. Seth lays out his concept [...]

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