Core businesses become core for a reason: their business designs work--or worked. Eventually, all businesses require renovation. Sometimes, they require revolution. But it can be hard to tell when your company needs a radical ...READ»
I’ve heard a bunch of talk amongst other business leaders trying to decide whether they should go through with their annual holiday party plans. The understandable concern is that doing so may send the wrong message after subjecting ...READ»
"Listen to the customer," Philip Berber told me in a private interview. That was the key business principle he used in building CyBerCorp, which he sold for $488 million in 2000. Berber and his wife Donna used that very same principle ...READ»
Has print died? It died a little today. The 125-year old scion of newspaper publishing reporting has been axed, as its parent company Nielsen folds it as part of a closure and sell off that will see nearly a dozen magazines out the ...READ»
More on the migration of media. This time, it's not only migrating from traditional to niche, it's moving countries and embedding itself in foreign lands. How's this for a foreign exchange program? Coming to a Chinese university ...READ»
The best board members will trample each other to the exit door, and hand in their resignations by the weekend, if board meetings are poorly handled. So… DON’T Allow the CEO (executive director) to lecture the board. Let ...READ»
According to then World Bank president Jim Wolfensohn, communities were “the heart and soul” of the bank’s Knowledge Management (KM) initiative in the mid-1990s. Inside the bank, we called them Thematic Groups.I was on the ...READ»
Each and every day I work with leaders to try to help them understand that much of what they have come to accept as “best practices” or “solid beliefs” in leadership philosophy are not only untrue, but keeping them from ...READ»
