Strategy

April 28, 2022

Going Tribal: When Globalization Fails

Much ado about globalization has occurred over the past two decades. Spurred by technology, the ease of travel and our never-ending appetite for cheap products, our […]
April 21, 2022

19,739 Definitions of Leadership (or Baking a Cake with One Ingredient)

In the past 15 months, 19,739 people (and counting) have responded to a discussion forum on LinkedIn. The question posed was rather simple, “What is the single-most important quality for […]
April 14, 2022

My Favorite Leadership Quality (It Begins with ‘H’…)

Several months ago I blogged about how an on-line discussion thread sought to define leadership in one word (see 19,731 Definitions of Leadership). It was an […]
February 16, 2015

On President’s Day: Should President’s Play?

Yesterday Air Force One arrived in our city. President Obama is spending President’s Day weekend in Palm Springs enjoying some down time. In fact, his recurring visits […]
February 12, 2015

TrendWatch: TV Goes down the Tubes…

‘Disruptive innovation’ is a modern business buzzword. By definition, it refers to something new that creates a new market and displaces an earlier technology. This can occur over varying […]
January 29, 2015

Saying Sorry: Responding to Our Mistakes

Mistakes are a part of life. When they are made, I am most interested in how people or organizations respond to them. Late last week, Intuit software […]
January 20, 2015

Fear This, Not That! You May be Afraid of the Wrong Things

Misdirected fear. When our minds focus on the wrong issues, our misdirected fear can keep us from working on the things that matter. For example, in […]
December 31, 2014

A Year in Review: Three of Your Favorite Blog Posts and One of Mine

As I conclude my first year of blogging it is a good time to reflect on the topics that interested you, my readers, the most. Here […]
December 9, 2014

Relevance: A Lifelong Investment

“The worlds wine cork producers want you to know that they’re sorry” (Pierson). A front page article in this weekends LA Times pronounced what happens when success meets […]
October 15, 2014

BYOD & BYOA: Welcome to the age of hypermobility

Trend Watch A recent article from the team at Join.Me highlights a trend that has been quietly growing in our organizations – Bring Your Own Device […]
September 23, 2014

The Death of Privacy: Life in a Post-Private World

Imagine if privacy was dead. You know, like absolutely nothing was private. As I see it, we don’t really have to imagine it.  Here is newsworthy […]
September 17, 2014

Live|Die|Repeat: Thinking Like Gen Y/Z

Sometimes, popular culture provides us with unexpected insights about life. This recently occurred during family movie night when we watched Edge of Tomorrow. This futuristic science fiction thriller […]