What Is Your Essential Execution Item for 2013?
Hana a new database tool from SAP is attempting to reduce complex business analysis from 12 hours to an instant, a blink of an eye! Hasso Plattner, the 68 year old founder of SAP was driven by the fear that the company’s innovation ability had stalled....
Family Businesses – A Lesson From Japan?
Buried in the WSJ last week was a fascinating piece of research about to be published on family businesses in Japan. As we know family businesses often decline at the hands of a founder’s less talented or motivated next generation of family entrepreneurs....
The Symbiotic Relationship in Business – Complexity & Simplicity
Symbiosis is close and often long-term interaction between two or more different biological species. Some symbiotic relationships are obligate, meaning that both symbionts entirely depend on each other for survival. In business the symbiotic relationship shows up in...
Are Your Brilliant or Just Lucky?
Jason Zweig published an insightful piece last week in his WSJ column on the subject of successful investors. His key points have real relevance for how you run your business. Key Points If one fund manager beats the market by 10% by sheer guesswork, that number alone...
Blog Post Ideas For CEOs
I believe every member of the team is in sales. Especially the CEO. But sales starts with lead generation (well actually it starts with positioning, then great products then lead generation but you get my point). So how does a CEO generate great leads? The CEO writes...
The Illusion of Age
It seems the world is fascinated by demographics. Certainly the Japanese have more reason than most: The Japanese Health Ministry estimates the nation’s total population will decrease by 25% from 127.8 million in 2005 to 95.2 million by 2050. Japan’s...
When Should The Company Founder Step Down?
This Question was asked this week in the FT influenced by the embarrassing debate over the future of Andrew Mason, founder and CEO of Groupon. The answers by an investor, a current CEO and an academic were helpful and can be summarized as: When someone else can do the...
Creating An Increasingly Powerful Business
How do you sustain the momentum of your business once it starts to move? How do the moving parts connect to drive the vehicle forward? How do you create continuous momentum? I’m not sure leaders are explaining to their teams how this works. Let me help by taking the...
The Quarterly Employee Meeting (The QM)
The Quarterly Meeting is a great tool to really motivate your team. These are the lessons I’ve learned to make these a success: Lessons Maximum time 60 minutes. Maximum agenda items 5. Suggested agenda items: Update on Sales Performance Update on People Update on...Operational Excellence For Exits
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