ANNOUNCEMENT I hope you enjoy the updated, user-friendly format and Table of Contents Click any title in this new Table of Contents to take you directly to that section. You can also click the logos along the right side to return to the Table of Contents. FEATURED ARTICLE It won't…
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…
Welcome to the first Sword Tips newsletter of 2022. A lot of good stuff in here and you'll be greeted with a beautiful new Table of Contents.
Yes, 2022 is here - thankfully - and we can finally say good riddance to 2021. You've already got a long list of things to do ... executing the annual plan, inspiring your team, committing to a new level of productivity … and so it goes. To give you a…
Are New Year's Resolutions Dead? Maybe they should be because the statistics aren't very encouraging about the success of those resolutions. There are a lot of reasons for that. Change isn't easy in any case, so unless you're prepared to invest in changing your behavior, your resolutions are likely to…
This is a shorter holiday version to kick off the New Year. I hope you enjoy it.
Happy New Year, my friends. Let's see what we can accomplish together in 2022! The New Year is always a great time for renewal and for a fresh start … but don’t let yourself get bogged down by a bunch of new resolutions that you most likely will never keep.…
Sword Tips, the Exkalibur Newsletter returns with a holiday edition ... and much much more.