This week, I had the opportunity to present at a global summit, in Vancouver, Canada. The event was chaired by Geoff Colvin, Senior Editor of Fortune and included great speakers such as Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics and ...READ MORE›
A Note to Our Readers: I received enormous response and literally hundreds of The Living Organization (R) model white paper downloads from my last Fast Company posting, Strategic Planning is Dead - Long Live Strategy ...READ MORE›
Accountability and responsibility -- both are important, but they are NOT the same thing.AccountabilityAn accountability is an end result. Being accountable is being answerable for a result.For example, a primary ...READ MORE›
If developing a culture of performance is one of your objectives for 2010, you are in luck! We are making it increasingly easy for you, your team and colleagues to access the content you need to achieve your goal.This Wednesday, we ...READ MORE›
The recent economic crisis has reminded business leaders of "the basics" of business performance; developing a great strategy is not enough. All participants need to be able to execute the strategy and the organization needs to ...READ MORE›
Happy New Year to all! By now, you probably have read all the 2010 predictions or even 2009 "best of" analyses! There are some great ones out there but....I haven't found much on BI 2020 horizon. So...looking back the last decade, and ...READ MORE›
We often hear from our clients, colleagues, and online audience: “Your model really resonates with my experience of business and it seems to help explain that which is often hard to explain, but does it produce real ...READ MORE›
I recently read Jim Collin's latest book "How the Mighty Fall". The book is an easy, useful and actionable read and I highly recommend it.
Timing was brilliant on Jim Collins' part as many, over the last year, wondered how it was possible that such successful institutions could fail that way...especially after so many books had been published lauding the practices of these giants.
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I recently had the opportunity to talk with executives about the issues they experience with incentives implementation, and what we call in Drive Business Performance, the multiple "currencies" of performance. We ...READ MORE›
In a recent Harvard Executive course I took, our decision making class instructor said - "it's not the information you HAVE that clouds your decision making, it's the information you DO NOT have".What a brilliant way to summarize the ...READ MORE›
Great WSJ article on the issue of information management and decision making. Although the article is specific to the scientific community, the same issues exist in the business world (see article @ ...READ MORE›
In a recent conversation on KPI management, I came up with, what I hope, could be a catchy soundbite: “is your green the new red?” The idea behind the sound bite is that, while many organizations focus on the red KPIs on ...READ MORE›
Do you know what strategy acceleration can do for your organization? Do you know what it really is or how it can directly impact your strategic success? Find out here. READ MORE›
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