Ever wonder how much impact decisions and choices have? Call it Chaos Theory or the Butterfly Effect, as time’s arrow moves forward, each event is a fork in the road. In our enterprises, these forks precipitate a cascade of events …
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“Values” is a word that I hear often. I hear it when people read from a wallet card they keep. I read it from organizational documentation and hall posters, often completing a trilogy with vision and mission, the three amigos
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Have you ever been completely surprised by an audit finding? Someone from outside your area discovered a condition that was always there for you to see, but you were blind to it. When it was all over, that is, you …
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This tempestuous business environment has rained on many of us … more like drenched for some. The umbrellas that jobs and careers provided have been lost, torn or broken for so many. Lots of pundits and economic prophets are more …
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“The “ordinary” event can be dealt with by routine – a procedure established in advance of a given eventuality. Energies are freed for dealing with the unexpected or creative acts.” HENRY A. KISSINGER. Wow! So clear, simple, on point, so …
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“This won’t last, just like all the other flavors of the month” … how often do we hear that phrase? I believe that we hear it far too often. It ranks up there with “we tried that before and it …
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I spent many of my business years in an era chock full of predictability. In fact, once upon a time, I was responsible for forecasting and business intelligence. While it was a task with challenges and full of fascinating insights, …
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Many of us enjoy the ritual of tucking a set of books in the bag for our summer getaways. For me, the infinity of interesting topics is daunting and exciting to contemplate, focus, decide and then enjoy. If you are …
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The last year of economic and business calamity has shattered much of public and leadership faith in business structures and controls. Regulation failed to regulate, economic self interests of financial institutions imploded from the inbred complexity of derivatives underpinned by illusionary value creation, and the dynamics of a virtual world provided no sea walls against an economic tsunami. The unraveling of the US auto industry is likely to precipitate yet more fundamental changes of how we will all operate and conduct our enterprises
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These are scary times! They make the last scare look like a bump in the road. That’s because it was just a bump in the road! Yet, then things looked scary, budgets had to be cut, programs put on hold, …
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