There are spectacular successes of strategy out there in the business world. And spectacular failures.
Usually the spectacular failure is one where the premise of the strategy was incorrect in the first place. My classic example is Classic Coke. It became Classic Coke because the company seriously misread the marketplace and the power of its own […]
If you look at the books and magazine articles (or business blog articles), you can tell that everyone loves strategy. I mean love it. You’d think that if you could come up with the coolest strategy in the world, you’d be sitting on Easy Street faster than you can say You Tube.
But, as the sports […]
With all the books written for “upper management” on how to develop strategy, you’d think CEO’s were the dumbest people on earth. (there is, of course, this totally pimpalicious temptation here to make some snarky comment, but I shall refrain….)
The truth is, strategy is hard. Its hard because developing plans to grow your company’s profits […]
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 […]
Subscribing to blogs is a wonderful thing (that’s what that big orange box is at the top right of this blog is all about). I’m catching up on my reading from the holidays and ran across this great post about returning to work in 2007 and still be faced with the same old…well…same old stuff.
Mike […]
OK, OK, I’m LinkedIn. Nine million of us are. I’m building a fair number of contacts there and have even declined invitations from people I don’t know. So what?
Outside of recruiters viewing the site looking for potential candidates, what have you gotten out of LinkedIn?
I’m missing out on the pimpalicious work tips that must be […]
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 yesterdays post, I wrote about responsiveness and efficiency. In the article referenced, there was another gem that I think is an important pimpalicious work tip: focus on the “to-be” process, not on the current process.
If you or your company have already made the decision to change out something, the vast majority of time you […]
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