What We Can Learn from Goats

These made me laugh out loud. 10. Don’t butt heads with anyone who has bigger horns. 9. The grass is always greener when someone else cuts i...

The Great Imponderables

One day, sitting around the dinner table, one of your young children will ask what heaven is like. Or what happens if there is no heaven. ...

Interviewing the Blunt CEO

Not long ago, I blogged on a terrific interview with the CEO of Amgen , one of a series of CEO interviews featured in "Corner Office,...

Why Didn't I Get Promoted?

About a year ago I wrote about (what I’ll call) one leg of the B ermuda Triangle of Managing People , the so-called “Game 3 employee. ” I’...

Teaching Leadership at Gettysburg

Last October I was lucky enough to get a look behind-the-scenes at Gettysburg , courtesy of the Gettysburg Foundation .   (See my original p...

Lessons from a Managment Pro

I discovered not long ago that a good friend’s mother was the secretary of David Ogilvy when he worked at the British Embassy in Washington...

Before You Reorganize. . .

Here are the ways a CEO can get sacked. . . Terrible strategy with good execution. Think Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, which made terrific hi-carb...

The Man of Steel Does Scenario Planning

In 1991 Peter Schwartz, the President of Global Business Network, published The Art of the Long View , a description of, and recipe for, sce...

Diagnosing the Business

In the February 2008 edition of the Harvard Business Review , Mark Gottfredson, Steve Schaubert, and Hernan Saenz have summarized their tech...

Baby Please Don’t Go: 4 Take-Aways

One of the single most distressing meetings in business is when a talented and once-enthusiastic--but now-resigned and departing--employee s...

Strategic Insight in Three Circles: 4 Steps

Sometimes the simplest tools are the most elegant and powerful. In this month’s Harvard Business Review , Joel Urbany and James Davis of Not...

How to Run a Meeting: 6 Take-aways

In the past few decades there have been hundreds and maybe thousands of articles written about how to run a successful meeting. In my mind, ...

Global Top 10 Management Concepts

These are the Global Top 10 Management Concepts as presented by 12Manage.com . I'm not sure how they are determined, but #2 is from a F...

Rules to Acquire By: 3 Lessons and 6 Take-Aways

Bruce Nolop, the CFO of Pitney Bowes, has contributed an excellent article to this month’s HBR which details the process used, and lessons...

Misperception at the Top: How Well is the Team Really Performing?

This will come as no surprise to anyone who has ever lead or participated on a team, either functional or project-based. The focus of new re...

If Managers Thought Like Designers: 10 Take-Aways

In the Spring/Summer 2006 issue of the  Rotman “best of” magazine , an  article written by Jeanne Liedtka, executive director of the Batte...