Tag Archives: organization

Extending the Circle of Safety Today

Posted on Thursday, 26 June 2014 9:26 am by

As we look forward to the weekend, let’s look back. As a leader did you: Clarify your organization’s “why?“ Bring others who shared your values into your organization, and not just those who had the skills you wanted? Extend the … Continue reading →

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Graduate School: Where CEOs Become Stupid?

Posted on Friday, 30 December 2011 4:43 pm by

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 →

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Two Types of People

Posted on Wednesday, 26 October 2011 7:58 am by

There are two types of people in the corporate world. Those that ship product. Those that explain how they’re planning to get a team together to build the requirements to gain the approval to get the funding to hire the … Continue reading →

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A GOOD Race to the Bottom

Posted on Tuesday, 19 April 2011 5:50 am by

It’s been said that you don’t want to be in a business that has the ability to be commoditized.  A commodity business lends itself to a race to do just a bit more for just a bit less–a few more … Continue reading →

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Good Google: A Reorg!

Posted on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 6:07 am by

Google recently did some reorganization under Larry Page, raising the visibility of some executives and removing some others.  Normally I don’t think too much about the organization of any given company, given that I have no idea how the company … Continue reading →

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