When I consider bidding for something on e-Bay, the first thing I do is check the reliability rating of the seller. When I want to meet a hard-to-reach executive, I try to establish a link through my network. When I consider which ...READ»
Many of us wish we could just go back in time, before all this turmoil started. Before the mortgages went bad, before the stock market tanked, before the massive layoffs. But, there is no going back, only forward. Whatever happens we ...READ»
Philip Anschutz, the American businessman with an estimated net worth of $7.8 billion, started in the oil business drilling his own wells. His first efforts in the 60s were unsuccessful, turning up one dry hole after another. When ...READ»
The danger in this crisis is not that we will not solve it. The danger is that we think too small – that we do not see the extraordinary opportunity it presents.If we spend our energy hunkering down, trying to maintain and preserve ...READ»
A visionary leader perceives challenges and growth opportunities before they happen, positioning people to produce extraordinary results that make real contributions to life.
I have begun working with a select group of people ...READ»
Most of my work is with senior managers and executives, helping them to implement large-scale change using participation and engagement to create buy-in and support.There are three conditions that require change leaders to shift from ...READ»
While working at the World Bank as a Knowledge Analyst in the late 90s I witnessed a significant change in how knowledge was amassed and applied for greatest impact. Previously, the emphasis had been on certain individuals, those ...READ»
Most people would be amazed at how much we can really do ourselves if we only take the opportunities in front of us. You don’t have to know all the answers, but if you keep asking the questions, you will get closer.
This is ...READ»
Rod Collins is the former Chief Operating Executive of Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program, the largest private health insurance account in the United States, a $20billion business.Today Rod works with organizations that ...READ»
In 1999 I was Communications Manager for the World Bank's enterprise resource planning (erp) initiative. We were gutting over 100 disconnected systems and replacing them with a single real-time application.
At the behest of ...READ»
