Feeling a bit overwhelmed by all those New Year work goals? After all, there is this long process for goal setting, especially in large corporations. The goals need to be figured out by the business and then cascaded to the next level of management and then to the next level of management and then to […]
This week, I’m going to take a look at “Strategy and Tactics,” those terms that are always invoked in business settings, but are rarely (IMHO, of course!) understood.
There are great implications to understanding the differences for those of us wanting to Pimp Your Work. We all spend effort and energy working the work. How you […]
Presentation Zen, one of my favorite blogs, talks about the need for solitude in order to have effective presentations.
I’d agree with that. But, I’d go much further.
In today’s fast, fast, fast business climate, there has become too little time for reflection. There are lots of reasons for this, of course. Off the top of my […]
Its one week since the first of the year. How many of your resolutions have you kept? Really kept? Really?
The number of blog posts about resolutions last week, while understandable, points out the inherent weakness in making resolutions along with the crowd: the artificial outweighs the need. If you have to make resolutions, you will.
Then […]
In all the talk about globalization, budgets, and cost reductions, we tend to think that everything in business is about producing revenue and being the most efficient company (read: Low Cost) out there on the planet.
Not so, says Michael Hugos in his blog Doing Business in Real Time. He’s offered up a very thoughtful post […]
Earlier today I whined that SAP was a virtual monopoly because the software forced their software business processes on businesses: good, bad, or indifferent.
The truth of the matter is this: software should be implemented that directly matches your intended business process.
OK, I just read that again and thought it sounded like a Mission Statement. When […]
I live in Seattle-land, where Starbucks coffee, Microsoft software and a jungle called Amazon all live in harmony. But we escape using Expedia, headquartered here as well. We take a lot of flack about Microsoft and their continuing issues with being called a monopoly.
The focus, of course, is the amount of market share Microsoft has […]
I was doing some additional research on mission statements for blogging purposes and came across Guy Kawasaki’s post on Mantras Versus Missions from January, 2006.
It still rings true at the end of 2006 as well.
Guy is much better about describing (and poking fun at) the pretty typical process of creating a Mission Statement compared to […]
Have you noticed a heightened interest in business being compared to the military? Some pundits and executives offer implementation of strategies using military methodology, most famously at Home Depot (where being bought by another company is the current rumor).
Others use military to develop strategy with all of the associated “enemy” and “territory” jargon.
Michael Hugos over […]
One of the myths out there in the business world is that high levels of research and development funding will produce innovative products. It turns out, this isn’t accurate.
My friend Liz, over at Successful Blog, picked up a great study done by Booz Allen Harrison (my “old skool” self wonders who Harrison is since in […]
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