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Does it seem like your CEO is always in meetings? That’s because they are. According to WSJ reporter Rachel Emma Silverman, “They spend about a...
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Another Consultingology Business Goes Social
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One of the toughest parts of running any business is recruiting top talent and getting that talent to stick around. But when you oversee a small...
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Entertainers and entrepreneurs have more in common than you’d think.
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“Of all online infographics, 89% contain statistics of dubious veracity.”—
Quit it With All the Infographics Already (via courtenaybird)
Paul...
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“People just get things wrong. They read them wrong, or remember them wrong or the way they want to, or the information they read right was wrong in...”
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“We have to abandon the arrogant belief that the world is merely a puzzle to be solved”
In the beginning, there was just you and your partners. You did every job. You coded, you met with investors, you emptied the trash and phoned in the midnight pizza. Now you have others to do all that and it’s time for you to “be strategic.”
Whatever that means.
Driving and managing change will remain the number one priority for leaders according to a recently published study. But the reality is that most change efforts fail. Many of these failures can be traced to these common mistakes.
“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail!” This statement is not totally true; there are plenty of successful enterprises that have gotten off the ground without any clearly defined plan. It is amazing what frenetic activity and action can do.
Once an organization reaches a point of critical mass, and experiences increased complexity some type of plan is necessary. What surprises me about most organizations that have engaged in strategic planning is that after all that time and effort, they allow the plan to collect dust.
The Japanese word Muda loosely translates as waste. The core element of lean manufacturing is to eliminate waste—or, in more North American terms, to “cut the fat.” While applying lean concepts to manufacturing may seem straightforward, there is little agreement on what that term even means for software, or if it applies.
The federal market space is ripe for the introduction of kanban best practices. According to the Federal IT Dashboard, last year the government spent $78.7 billion (yes, with a ‘B’) on IT projects, including investments in COTS, GOTS, upgrades and an army of consultants and contractors to glue it all together. These projects ranged in scope from the very smallest programs of only several thousand dollars to the mega, multi-agency initiatives, such as the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative and the implementation of the Federal CIO Council’s “Cloud First” Initiative. The size of this portfolio and increasing pressure on financial resources makes an opportunity for kanban enthusiasts who can offer the government increased efficiency.
For the long-term viability of any enterprise, you need a viable corporate culture. It, too, has to be long-term. Cultivated good people. Work with honest and competent business managers and give them his long-term commitment and support.
Courtesy of the WSJ, a look at sites that help you set up your own web presence and collaborate.
Consider this: Would you like “Patagonian toothfish” on your plate tonight for dinner? Hmm… not so much? Ok what about “Chilean Sea Bass?” That’s much better, right? Or another example is how Marion Morrison put on a cowboy hat, slung on a six-shooter and became “John Wayne.”
Names are quite powerful. I pretty much started as a copywriter. I know that words are incredibly important. Each one has a distinct difference. Get the name right, and you get branding as a by-product of your advertising.
This is the story of a wonderful idea. Something that had never been done before, a moment of change that shaped the Internet we know today. This is the story of Flickr. And how Yahoo bought it and murdered it and screwed itself out of relevance along the way.
Estimates of the historical value of a user put the IPO hype in perspective.
Although focused on downsizing the U.S. military, this insightful article offers insights for any organization going through a corporate restructuring…
Today’s best junior officers, those with high talent and a strong calling to service, should become the admirals and generals who testify before Congress and serve as Joint Chiefs in 20 years. Retaining them is vital; losing them hurts our long-term ability to creatively transform the military as security challenges change. The U.S. military must replace its industrial-age personnel processes and insular culture with contemporary personnel and talent management systems that reward innovation
Sarah Lichtenstein, an expert in the field of decision science, points to several characteristics of groups that exhibit high intelligence with respect to risk.
“Manage your team” might seem clear and straightforward. Yet when we talk about it, we often find it’s not an intuitive concept for many managers and for some it even cuts against the grain of what they think they should do as bosses.
Perhaps the easiest way to explain the problem, as we’ve come to understand it, is through the phrase we used above — manage “through the team.” By that we mean you should use the social dynamics of the team to manage individual members, rather than managing members primarily one-by-one. This is a critical distinction that many managers miss. Though they extol the benefits of teamwork, they insist on managing their teams individual-by-individual. Thus, they virtually ensure that their groups will never become true teams.
How will individuals get knowledge work done a decade from now? Where will they be working? How do these trends affect how business will be conducted in America… in Asia…. in Africa?
