I take Mark Hurst’s/Uncle Mark’s advice and read The Economist. A couple of weeks ago, there was an interesting piece in the Schumpeter called “The Catalan Kings.” The piece looks at one of the age old questions in sports AND in business: Is it better to buy talent or train your own talent? The article [...]
Tags: management·sports·training
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 [...]
Tags: leadership·personal branding·training
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 [...]
Tags: leadership·management·military·Tom Peters·training
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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