Hypothetically, let’s say I have a really big opportunity facing my company. Lots of upside. It’ll take a lot of effort to seize this opportunity and realize the benefits. But the results look really promising….
So climb with me, up the decision tree.
First, do I keep this as a pet project or do I delegate it? [...]
This morning on a flight to Chicago, the guy sitting next to me asked, “do you know the expression, ‘running the line’?” I replied that I thought it might have something to do with working on an assembly line in a factory.
He said that’s about right. He explained he was on his way to [...]
Not sure if this is a trend, or a blip, or if I’m just seeing shadows… but it seems like more print ads these days are really just company mission statements put into wider circulation. It’s actually an interesting idea – how to express your company’s mission/vision/mandate/charter/direction for all to see. And for all to [...]
I just read a quote in the WSJ by a company CEO: “We are moving full speed ahead with our go-forward business strategy. There is no doubt we still have a long way to go, and it will be a bumpy road.”
This makes me wonder:
- would it be better to not go full speed’?
- what [...]
I always like the paradox in things….
Is success more about perseverance (‘if at first you don’t succeed…’), or about opportunity (‘an idea whose time has come…’)?
Look at James Cameron’s move Avatar – supposedly fifteen years in development, because Cameron’s vision was ahead of technological capabilities… until now. He persevered.
Then, Malcolm Gladwell, in his book The [...]
Washington University’s Olin Business School has fired up The Institute for Innovation and Growth (to which I’m honored to be on the board), and their thinking is that innovation comes from three core areas:
1. innovation-based growth: clear growth strategies, new business models that support growth, internal processes that foster new ideas, and expertise in trend [...]