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Category Archives: Organization
Should Society Let Us Exist?
When new CEOs are installed at companies, they’ll often set their agenda not by what they say, but by the questions they ask. On becoming IBM’s CEO, Sam Palmisano only asked four questions in his first meeting. I think they’re … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Organization, Strategy
Tagged corporations, IBM, leadership, society
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Reading a Culture Through Bureaucracy
You can tell a lot about the corporate culture of a company by how aggressive the SG&A functions are. Do you get “escalated” (a favorite bureaucratic term, used only at large, inefficient companies) on when you: Neglect to fill out … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Communications, Organization
Tagged bureaucracy, process, SG&A
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Who Are You?
Being self aware is good for us as leaders, and it’s good for us collectively as corporations. Not every company is a Silicon Valley startup. Nor does every company have a patent wall that can deflect competition. Yet many companies … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Organization, Philosophy
Tagged financials, Hong Kong, ROE
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New CEO Uses Corporate Jargon. Stock Falls.
Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) just replaced co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis with Thorsten Heins. I have no idea how well Mr. Heins will do as RIMs CEO, nor have I spent any time exploring his background. But I … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Organization
Tagged CEO, communications, corporate jargon, gobbledygook, heins, jargon, jim balsillie, mike lazaridis, YouTube
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Graduate School: Where CEOs Become Stupid?
Good post from David Pogue on December 15th about what he learned while teaching a course at Columbia Business School. He was amazed at the complete lack of business understanding by the so-called best and brightest at Columbia’s B-school, one … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Leadership, Organization, Philosophy
Tagged CEO, MBA, organization, profitability
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The Anti-ROWE
Interesting argument to increase workplace flexibility to keep more mid-level government bureaucrats in the federal government. That’s the wrong way around. The federal government should let the hide-bound mid-level retire and move along and go ROWE. We need the best … Continue reading
“The Channel” to Nowhere
Why do you sell through distributors, resellers, VARs, or in other words, “the channel?” Is it worth your time building lots of infrastructure to manage the rules around distributing your product, dealing with channel conflict, commissions, “owning the customer” and … Continue reading
Posted in Customer Care, Organization, Product Development
Tagged channel, distribution, product development, sales, strategy
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Problems With Good Ideas
Good ideas have two major problems. They spread. They divert attention from bad ideas. Let’s look at the first problem with this image as the illustration. Regardless of what you think about the Occupy movement, you’ll have to agree that … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Organization
Tagged attention, ideas, leadership
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Ideas + Attention = Leadership
We don’t follow titles. We don’t follow companies. We don’t even follow people. We follow ideas. Nobody worth interacting with cares what your rank is, what box you occupy on the org chart, who you work for or what your … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Organization, Philosophy
Tagged attention, change, ideas, leadership
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I Like Ike
Although business is not usually like war, in that nobody gets shot in meetings, the business world can learn a lot from our military. Let’s take a lesson from General, later President, Dwight David Eisenhower that can help us reduce … Continue reading
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