Some baseball teams have won the World Series playing “small-ball (hit and run, stealing bases, trying to get singles and doubles).” Others have played “big ball (stuffing the roster with hitters who can score with one swing of the bat and preferably with runners on base).”Any of them who has won has “left it all […]
Monday, February 25, 2013
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In anticipation of an internet radio conversation with my friend Jim Blasingame (the small business advocate), I have been thinking about recent conversations with CEOs and business owners. Two themes have emerged. First, living with change is a permanent condition. And while the boss can get valuable input from within the enterprise (and should), navigating […]
Saturday, December 8, 2012
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On today’s WSJ.com, Oliver Burkeman’s article The Power of Negative Thinking, there are assertions any leader should contemplate upon and decide what to adopt in their lives. The basic premise is that focusing on negative outcomes in thought and action can have beneficial effect. Negative thinking can take several flavors and I subscribe to some […]
Monday, July 30, 2012
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One of my close friends was the newly hired CEO of a F200 company – a distributor of industrial products. Customers were king and the unwritten rules of the industry at that time were to say “yes” to customer requests for special handling, inspection, or packaging, even if it degraded product quality or violate the […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Monday, March 4, 2013
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