Since 1955, the Fortune 500 list represents the 500 largest US corporations by gross revenue. Making the Fortune 500 is a mark …
Fast Start — Flummoxed by failure?
Fast Start conversation: Ah, failure. Happens to all of us; the reason pencils come with erasures. Intelligent people fail. Though there …
Highlight change management — an introduction to Appreciative Inquiry
The ability to change comes from the desire to change. The key to positive change is a person’s intrinsic motivation to change. Appreciative Inquiry works around a premise that we move and change in the direction we inquire.
Games Primates Play by the book
If the title does not intrigue enough, how about the subtitle: Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relations. …
Fast Start — How to beat the odds judging risk
Fast Start conversation: People overestimate their ability to judge risk. Both the upside potential as well as the downside loss. Incomplete …
Recently finished book — A Leap in the Dark
Any talk about change management must start with stakeholder alignment. Quick on any change-rule-heels: risk identification. History provides truly great examples …
Project management is not a process, but a promise
A project introduces something new. New requires change from what was to a promise of what will. The project deliverable, or …
Fast Start — How not to grow, a CFO’s not-to-do list
Fast Start conversation: A saying: if you want to stay the same, you have to change everything. To stay on top, …
People, process, and technology … divided by behavior
People, process, and technology is not a law, it is a rule of thumb; we could quibble that people should not need it’s own category, as both process and technology rely on people. However, it is clear in most change that people draw the short straw in design.
I propose we include behavior into functional design.
Organization innovation dies when industry myopia prevails
Industry myopia culls innovation. People who grow in one industry or cycle, through only one industry may seem safe to hire. …
Social metrics that matter to your boss
A business case usually relies on numbers. Numbers to justify the investment, numbers to project the return on investment, and numbers …
USA Inc. Mary Meeker’s letter to investors on America’s financial statements
The United States as a for-profit corporation.
Mary Meeker takes an investor relation’s view of a letter to USA Inc. shareholders and presents how investors might position the United States of America as a corporation.
What position will you take going short, going long, or more likely: what’s going on?
The bureaucracy option to manage risk
Policy, procedure, and bureaucracy tend to creep as an organization grows in size: revenues, market share, employees. With that creep does organization …
Project management is useless without scale
Project management is a profession. Project management is a discipline. Project management is a skill. Project management is a function. Project management is a process. Project management is …
Business strategy failures are project management failures
The essence of strategic change is not a new direction, but a series of directives. What to start, what to stop, …
Fistful of beans 02/09/2011
Five things I’ve seen, read, or thought might seed results: 1. Apple, With or Without Steve Jobs — Bloomberg Businessweek Perhaps there …
Technical ability does little to mitigate risk
Organizations don’t simply run from a strategic plan prescription. Projected cash flows don’t deliver themselves. Business units don’t run in a …
Quality communication in social media
As a professional statistician, I help doctoral students design quantitative research studies, and analyze and interpret their data, for their dissertation. …