Say you have a big party. I mean a BIG party. The night finishes just as planned. No one went to the emergency room. Just heavy, heavy sleepers spread out around the house. Except for those who are still on the space ship enterprise and are carrying on well into the morning.
Amid the incessant giggling, […]
Over the past few years ‘foodies’ have been extolling the virtues of slow food, a philosophy of eat local and organic that has taken off around the world. In the UK, for example, the southwest part of the country is full of organic farms, local delivery, and small slow-food restaurants in former pubs-turned-gourmet hotspots. Perhaps […]
As I write, bits and pieces come together in interesting ways…
There’s a group of people in business who live to tell others what to do. They rose to power when humans settled down because they were the essential catalyst needed to turn a group of seat-of-their-pants hunter/gathers into an agricultural workforce.
Today we call them […]
April 19, 2008 – 11:05 am
In the current issue of Harvard Business Review, David Collis and Michael Rukstad offer up a most interesting challenge to senior corporate leaders. In their article, Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?, they ask a simple yet provocative question.
Specifically, they ask if you can state what your company’s strategy is is 35 words […]
April 17, 2008 – 11:46 am
Why do executives love consultants? Why do executives read business books?
Insecurity. And fear.
- Bandit
It’s as if a requirement for entering the ranks of senior management today is the ability to make excuses for why it’s impossible to do things that most people agree are important.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
- Bandit
February 28, 2008 – 8:50 am
I’m thinking about team-building again…
Conventional wisdom says that:
A players hire A players
B players hire C players
C players hire losers
You see the problem… If you don’t hire exclusively A players then your entire company will quickly fill with losers, dragging you and your company to the grave.
It’s a good thing there’s an easy solution, right? […]
February 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
Some 80+% of businesses world wide can be defined as family businesses. Yet, in Management 101 textbooks, rarely are family firms mentioned at all. In most management texts, family firms are mentioned in the chapter on entrepreneurship, and even then they tend to get 2- 4 pages worth of attention. When you factor in the […]
February 22, 2008 – 7:37 am
Conventional B-School curricula are broken and irrelevant for the most part.
We didn’t make this up. It has been pointed out by some of the insiders of the B-School world—Henry Mintzberg, Warren Bennis, James O’Toole. For independents, entrepreneurs and small shops of designers and developers, subjects like Human Resource Management, Supply Chain Management, […]
February 17, 2008 – 9:19 am
There was a fine exchange about management and leadership on the Optimal Experience blog in the late hours of the night and the early hours of the morning—Saturday night being hot time for professionals to squeeze in one last deep thought.
In a previous incarnation of Not An MBA, I wrote three posts about management, leadership, […]
