AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong held a company meeting with 1,000 employees in attendance last August, during which he publically fired an employee. Bad news for the employee and bad news for Armstrong as someone in the audience recorded it. Nicholas Carlson writes an in-depth article … Read more
Yes, it’s that time of year to dust off those goals that you set for 2013 and see how you’re doing before it’s too late to do anything about it Sound familiar? As the leader, it’s your job to hold others accountable to their goals. … Read more
There was a great article this past weekend in the Wall Street Journal written by Scott Adams, (aka Mr. Dilbert), about his viewpoint on goals, passion, systems and “failing to success.” He’s completely against the first two and for the last two. “Forget passion. Goals … Read more
Do you remember the quote from former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; “There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also … Read more
I found an interesting read this weekend in the WSJ about going back to the good old days of discipline in schools, before everyone got a star for participation. The author was describing a reunion of one teacher’s students, who years later came to appreciate … Read more
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” ~ Charles Mingus As I’ve been working through a couple of complex projects, I realized with dismay that they were getting ever more complicated with each iteration and in fact, getting … Read more
You’ve all been asked to support various causes at work. Maybe it’s been your co-worker’s child’s softball team or the current company cause. These are all great, assuming they are in alignment with the company values and policies and truly assist someone or some organization … Read more
I have seen a couple of interesting articles recently about innovation and whether or not America is “tapped out” in the realms of creativity and invention. The first was “Is America Out of Ideas?” by Daniel Gross. The second was, “Cultural Revolution,” from The Economist. … Read more
Last week there was an interesting article in the WSJ about Microsoft and some industry veterans offered up several “Fix it Strategies” for the company with Ballmer’s departure. There were definitely some interesting ideas and likely some that are spot on. However, it got me … Read more
On a recent business trip to the East Coast, I was struck with how each company involved was successful but in very different ways from one another. While on the trip, I also ran across this article that basically throws out a lot of commonly … Read more