Perspectives
The case against Co-CEOs
I must admit that I used to think that having Co-CEOs at a company was a good idea. It certainly looked good when Balsillie and Lazaridis were running RIM successfully a few years ago. But Saturday's article in the Globe and Mail on the fall of Blackberry certainly...
Keith Ferrazzi – Master Networker
I've always looked for people to emulate, someone who is a master networker. Today I read a story in Inc. Magazine about someone who would win the title hands down. Problem is that I can't imagine anyone emulating his habit of working 16 hours a day and making...
Dear Social Media
Dear Social Media I've been meaning to ask you a few questions about networking. Thing is, I'm a bit confused about social media as a way to network. It's like I've entered a big room where I know a few people and now I have to meet the rest. This big huge room seems...
Is having lunch with an old friend networking?
I had lunch with an old friend on Friday and I realized this morning that getting together for lunch qualified as networking. I hate networking but really enjoyed lunch. What's up with that? Until today I thought of networking as attending events and wandering around...
Maybe all we need is leaders that don’t suck
I'm back fretting about this issue of leadership again given some of the research that we've done recently. You might have noticed from the most recent research that lots of people pick 'Management' as the thing they like least about their job. At the same time, less...
Flexibility
One of the responses to our recent survey that surprised me was how many people mentioned 'flexibility' as one of the things they liked about where they work. It was only 12 percent of respondents but when paired with 'location' represented a total of 20%....
6 Things people like and dislike about their jobs.
For this month's research, we wanted to find out what things people like and dislike about work so we asked 500 people what they thought about their jobs. And the results are surprising. Managers and employees like pretty much the same things. This means the two...
Float and Dive Management
If you were James Dyson's boss, would you have fired him before he created his 5,127th prototype of a new vacuum cleaner? I've been trying to figure out why employees have become so fearful of making mistakes and I think the cause is what I've called 'Float and Dive...
Tolerance
I hope you've been keeping up with 40 Days of Dating. It's a very bad example of the lack of tolerance we have for others these days. If you haven't been reading the blog, It's the current new media darling where two good friends with opposite relationship problems...