When goals are REALLY goals
In working with many companies on their strategy and their business plans, the subject of goal setting always comes up. Whether goals should be “stretch” or “makeable” is another subject for another...
View ArticleThe more things change…
Recently, I was reviewing a case study from the Harvard Business Review titled “Stick to the Core or Go for More?” The central question is a common one for businesses large and small: should we focus...
View ArticleKnow what you’re talking about: Read.
If you are old enough to remember that line (in fact, the only line) in a public service television spot that ran some years ago, you are in good company. The spot featured a group of young men in a...
View ArticleRate and Pace Will Win the Race
By now, the failed experiment of Ron Johnson as CEO of major retailer JC Penney has been well chronicled. Until the April 7 issue of Fortune magazine, however, much of the detail about what happened...
View ArticleQuestions & Answers
Recently I was invited to participate in a career event at New York University. The program was aimed at about-to-graduate students in the Graphic Communications Management and Technology Master’s...
View ArticleRun your own race!
Some years ago right after college, I began running competitively. Up until that point, I disliked running intensely, mostly because it was something my football and basketball coaches made us do to...
View ArticleWhat really motivates us?
According to a recent article in The New York Times, a recent study by two university researchers (at Yale University and Swarthmore College) revealed some interesting and perhaps counterintuitive...
View ArticleThere’s magic in that yellow legal pad!
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, a revealing idea confirmed what I believed for years (don’t you just love when that happens―confirming evidence from an objective, third party source?). Now I...
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