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»
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»
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»
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»
Recently, an article was published in Time Magazine discussing the importance of temperament of the two presidential candidates http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1850921,00.html. I found the article intriguing in two ...READ»
Management has never really been accepted as an exciting or thrilling activity. However, this is mostly due to ignorance. Only a small amount of people have direct experience of what’s involved in management, what managers are like, ...READ»
In these days of pessimism and gloom, anybody can be forgiven for looking back nostalgically at the days when venture capitalists, for example, would sound a far more bullish note, ringing the bell for opportunity. For example: ...READ»
Whatever the causes, there can be no doubting the result. The world is going through a period of acute economic anxiety and falling economic performance, both in large matters and small. In a sense, everybody has been here before. ...READ»
