Are you still trying to cobble together a plan to finally implement your strategy this year? It doesn’t take long for the inevitable slowdown in strategy execution to rear its ugly head, does it? Some of the initiatives might be retreads which didn’t get implemented in the past … some…
New Year’s resolutions may contain a few worthy goals, but this is an alternate view or at least a good way to start: Accept yourself as you are and then you can change. Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that…
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Strategy Execution Not Working? Are you still trying to cobble together a plan to actually implement your strategy this year? It doesn’t take long for the inevitable slowdown in strategy execution to rear its ugly head. Some of the initiatives might be retreads which never got implemented … some of…
You may remember the author, H. Ross Perot, as a third party Presidential candidate in 1992, but he also earned billions as the founder of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems. I've always thought this advice was an excellent way to differentiate leadership styles. Inventories are to be managed. People…
At the end of the year, I usually tabulate how much fiction I’ve read during the year. This year, I read 14,687 pages in the Mystery-Thriller-Suspense genre. That’s about 282 pp/week or 1,223 pp/month. I’ve read more like one book/week in the past, but a few books this year were longer…
The critics aren’t big fans of this movie but most movies fans ARE fans…including me. It received four nominations at the 79th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture – Musical or Comedy, and six at the 27th Critics’ Choice Awards, including Best Picture. The movie was released on Christmas Eve with a marquee cast…
Unexplainable is a a science podcast that Vox launched in March to explore the most important, interesting, and awe-inspiring unanswered questions in science … the big questions that inspire scientists to do their work — questions that fill them with wonder or a sense of purpose, or remind them that the universe…