“Disruption”: Dumb Luck or Deep Understanding?
Reading Time: < 1 minute We often think of “disruption” as belonging to the realm of startups or big, but innovative and relatively young companies like Google or Apple. Is it luck…is it art… or is it science?. One really old, really large company that makes many products you use every day knows that disruption
Mark Cuban: Moving from Bartender to Titan
Reading Time: < 1 minute Mark Cuban is best known as the founder of Broadcast.Com, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a regular on “Shark Tank.” What you may not know is that after graduating from college he launched his tech career by becoming…. a bartender. Check out this summary of the rest of
Have You Identified Your “Why”?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Successful people usually have a well-defined purpose in life. That they have one and that it’s well defined is usually quite clear, but how he or she arrived at it often isn’t. Here’s a compelling graphic that may help you or a young person in your life understand how to
The Never Ending Danger of Losing Your ‘A’ Employees: Sniffing Out the Quitters
Reading Time: < 1 minute I continually hear from CEOs that it is hard to find A players – we have lots of B’s and C’s and, unfortunately, these types will not get us to the next level. Labor markets get tight is already tight in manufacturing and will get tighter elsewhere as the economy continues
Have you seen Jim Collins’ 12 GREAT Questions?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Jim Collins has become the pre-eminent management writer of our generation with such works as Built to Last, Good to Great, How the Mighty Fall and Great by Choice. In recent years, has been increasingly queried by executives as to how they could efficiently use this impressive, but voluminous, body
Five Lessons From Marissa Mayer
Reading Time: < 1 minute There are many articles on Marissa Mayer who has taken on the remarkable task of trying to make sense of what business Yahoo is in and what its future might be. Whatever the outcome, you have to admire the career she’s had so far. One business writer has recapped her journey
From Leather to Electronics – What Can We Learn from Radio Shack?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Most people alive today would have trouble remembering when there wasn’t a local Radio Shack store. For years, it was synonymous with things electronic. This past week it filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy with most if of its brick and mortar assets probably destined to be resurrected as Sprint Stores.
Who is the Father of Management: Drucker or Caesar?
Reading Time: < 1 minute The late Peter Drucker was often referred to as “the man who invented management.” While Drucker’s contribution to the canon of management is legendary, he certainly was not the first to comment on or grapple with the art and science of managing subordinates. Jerry Toner, a professor of classical studies
Be Stoic Before Being Heroic
Reading Time: < 1 minute Heroes are people who choose the difficult when they don’t have to, including a difficult philosophy of life. Start your day with a few observations from one of antiquity’s greatest CEOs, the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and another “thought leader” of that era, the philosopher Seneca . Aurelius’ “Meditations”
From the Brink of Extinction to Winner: Are there Lessons for Your Company?
Reading Time: < 1 minute We celebrate comebacks, like so many other events, because they are rare. These stories are valuable because, as John Henry Newman observed over 100 years ago, “history offers lessons, not rules.” A turnaround for the times is a company that came back from the brink of oblivion to a level
