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Urgency and economic cycles It has become trendy to use phrases like “especially in the current economy” for everything from marketing to whitepapers. This baffles me because aren’t we always in a ‘current economy’ of some sort? What they are most likely trying to do is to highjack some of the inherent urgency that macroeconomic …
Book Review for Goodreads. Originally published 1967. Edition read was Harper Business, 1993. I’m too young to have been part of the Drucker Generation. I had always heard him talked of and quoted among the staid and dusty corners of mainstream business, but I never thought to reach back and read him. Drucker’s words and …
Zone to Win Another timely, excellent piece of management theory from Geoffrey Moore. YouTube Chalk Talk -> https://youtu.be/PDiCkAzMq54 Geoffrey Moore makes his living creating new frameworks in business that rationally explain company and market behavior, then using these frameworks to mine epiphanies for we lesser souls. I remember reading “Crossing the Chasm” in the early …
Leadership in times of challenge Over the past few weeks we have seen some challenging events in our community. And into everyone’s life, as they say, “some rain must fall”. These events can be macro events like stock market crashes or economic failures. These events can be personal like a job loss, or the end …
7 ways to Reboot your brain out of a slump What to do when you begin to doubt yourself. Sometimes you get into a mental slump. You feel trapped in a box. You have challenges and things don’t seem to be going your way. How do you get out of that slump? There times when …
