The Innovation Song
The Innovation Song you ask? That's right...The above video contains a song performed by a Stanford student which was submitted for his final project for a class entitled: "Innovation and Implementation in Complex Organizations." The song was intended as a tribute to Gordon MacKenzie's "Orbiting the Giant Hairball," a book that puts forth some thoughts on how organizations can better address the…
The Counter-Intuitive CEO
Great CEOs are counter-intuitive. They don't subscribe to herd mentality, rather they use their contrarian instincts to exploit opportunities, to create advantage, to build strong leadership teams, to expand market share, and to increase brand equity. A global recession is nothing more than an excuse for poor leaders to assign blame for weak performance elsewhere. [Tweet "The counter-intuitive…
Boosting Personal Productivity
Has the speed at which business is transacted in the 21st Century completely overwhelmed you? Now that we're approaching the end of the year, have you been as productive as you'd hoped for? Do you find yourself flirting with disaster by constantly brushing up against deadlines? Are your work hours increasing without a corresponding increase in income or satisfaction? Do you wish you had more time…
Search Engine Marketing
Search Engine Marketing has always played a critical role in managing the visibility of a company's online brand. However, with the Internet becoming what is arguably today's dominant medium, Search Engine Marketing has also risen to become a key driver in a company's overall brand strategy. Regrettably, the maturity of the products and services that comprise search engine related disciplines…
Good Money After Bad…
Good money after bad...this is perhaps the most apropos description of the current proposal to bail out the big three US automakers. Have we learned nothing? Are we again going to let fear-mongering subject us to more flawed decisioning? The lack of management and accountability for the trillion-dollar government bailout of the mortgage and finance industry has been nothing short of amazing to…
Innovate or Perish
Innovate or Perish is a battle cry that I have long espoused to my clients. I can't think of a better example of what can happen to those companies that fail to innovate than the rumors circulating about the Tribune Co. The Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and other once-revered trophy brands is hemorrhaging under the burden of huge debt obligations, insufficient cash…
The Next Collapse…
It seems as if the more layers of the onion we peel back on the chaos in the capital markets the worse the news seems to be. I have long been a believer in the axiom "where there's smoke, there's fire," and trust me when I tell you that the fire is far from being under control, much less extinguished. You see while most of the attention in the mainstream media has been focused on the debacle in…
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