RSS

Show only this topic:
Kenan Samms

Signs Your Business Might Need a Radical Redesign

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»

Kenan Samms
COPENHAGEN   |  Comment

Girls (and Boys) Gone Wild in Copenhagen

Why should policymakers, investors, or businesspeople care about this? READ»

Kenan Samms

What Your Employees Really Want for Christmas

You may think you know what your employees want for Christmas, but what if you are totally wrong?READ»

Kenan Samms
HOLIDAY   |  Comment

Committing a Party Foul: Sweating Over Your Holiday Celebration Plans

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»

Kenan Samms

Giving Money The Entrepreneurial Way

"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»

Kenan Samms
JOURNALISM   |  Comment

E&P, Newspaper Chronicler, Feels Failing Print Ind., Folds after 125 Years

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»

Kenan Samms

View from Copenhagen: The Zero Sum Game

How will things shake out in Copenhagen? READ»

Kenan Samms

For the Record, My Views on Coaching

Executive, Leadership, Business Coaching, are here to stay. Period. READ»

Kenan Samms
ADVERTISING   |  Comment

Chinese Journalism Students Get their Very Own ABC News Bureau

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»

Kenan Samms
CLEANTECH   |  Comment

Who Moved My Green Cheese?

Finding Opportunity in the Global Fight Against Climate ChangeREAD»

Kenan Samms

The Do's and Don'ts of Running a Great Nonprofit Board Meeting

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»

Kenan Samms

3 Magical Questions to Improve Business Execution

Here are 3 magical questions every executive must consider going into 2010 to get to the core of the issues impacting business execution.READ»

Kenan Samms
CHANGE   |  Comment

Three Ways to Channel Community Value

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»

Kenan Samms

Attention all leaders: New criteria for raising issues in the workplace, no solution necessary!

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»

Kenan Samms
LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Act with the Big Picture in Mind

Putting your ideas into action is the mark of a successful manager in the middle.READ»

Syndicate content