Strategy Execution

Mission Impossible

The market has changed... Customers aren’t buying.  Your business model isn’t working.  Expectations are unrealistic. What do you do? 1.…

17 years ago

Ready, Set, Stall…

. Leading change so it works In my experience with my own teams and advising other executive teams on getting…

17 years ago

Leading & Managing: Top 10 Ideas

An interview with Jim Davis This week I had an opportunity to interview Jim Davis, CEO of Verified Person, technology…

17 years ago

Customer Value and the P&L

This is a sequel to my last post on Customer Cost or Care.  Several people left comments, and I got even more…

17 years ago

Six Reality Checks

As a leader, it’s your job to deal with high level issues: strategies, abstractions, and financial models.  But if you…

17 years ago

Serving or Selling?

Lately, I keep having conversations with people whose customers are telling them, “sorry, I have no budget”. These days, whether…

17 years ago

Better with Less

Budget Crunch As we all finalize our 2009 plans, amidst all the uncertainty, one thing is clear -- we are…

18 years ago

Productive Conflict

I was leading a Career Day last week with a group of executives, and we were discussing the topic of…

18 years ago

Squeezing the Oil out of our Food Supply

I’m breaking form in this blog post to bring you something “off topic” which I found fascinating. This is a…

18 years ago

Are you Leading or Managing?

A fundamental difference between Management and Leadership is this: Making sure the work gets done = Management Increasing capacity of…

18 years ago