Perspectives
You Can’t Buy Passion
I was preparing for a speech on Monday and looking for examples of great leaders who founded great companies. To do this I looked for the largest technology companies I could find figuring that would be the path to finding great leaders. The thing that jumped out at...
Leaders and Passion
Take a look at the three leaders featured above, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, and Jack Welsh. Each of them was successful but each seems to have had a different passion in business. Richard Branson entered multiple businesses because he was fed up with the poor...
What’s your business passion?
I'm playing with this idea of passion in business so please bear with me while I figure it out. The way I figure it, you can have a passion for three things in business; people, products and process. (Please notice that all these words start with a P.) People If you...
The Rise of the Douchebag
If there is one thing that the knowledge economy and the increase in ambiguity has foisted on us is the rise of the douchebag. You know the type, an individual who sounds great when talking but the knowledge is only surface deep and there is no ability to execute. The...
Customer and Employee Engagement
There is a great article in the Gallup Business Journal today on The Business Impact of Human Emotions. It's an easy read so do read it. The most amazing part of it is the statistic at the end that says "that when organizations engage their customers and their...
Ambiguity – Lee Iacocca
So what would you do if you became CEO of a near bankrupt company? Cut staff? Improve operations? Renegotiate loans? Or instead would you take on the competitors by introducing a completely new product line, one that competitors haven't even thought of? Turnarounds...
Ambiguity
The growth of the knowledge economy has resulted in fundamental changes in the nature of business. As we moved from a manufacturing economy we have moved away from its foundation of rationality, order, and predictability towards an economy that values change,...
Leadership Style
Last week I wrote a few posts about different leadership styles identified by Kurt Lewin in his research. In the posts I reiterated the claim that there is no one right style of leadership, just different styles that work for different types of people depending on the...
Seth Godin on Education
This is an absolutely great talk about Education. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXpbONjV1Jc