I have a theory about strategy offsites. The best idea of the entire two days is usually spoken during the coffee break, by someone who then doesn’t repeat it in the room, because the room has already moved on to the next slide. That isn’t a people problem. It’s a structure problem. Most offsites are built like ...
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Guest Post from David Burkus |
Goal-setting is one of the most powerful tools a leader has. But most leaders don’t wield it nearly as well as they think. And if we’re honest, many treat it as just another item on the management checklist. You draft goals at the beginning of the year, plug them into your HR system, and then forget about ...
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I have been writing about innovation long enough to have developed a reflex. When something dazzling shows up, I ask three questions: Is it new? Does it create value for somebody? And will anyone outside the launch event ever actually use it? Then, once in a while, something arrives that makes me forget the questions entirely and ...
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Guest Post from Geoffrey Moore |
A post a little while ago of Dealbook with Andrew Ross Sorkin led off with a great topic: How hands-on should founders be in their companies? As Sorkin notes, In the framing of Brian Chesky, the Airbnb co-founder and C.E.O., and Paul Graham, the Y Combinator co-founder, it comes down to “founder mode” versus “manager mode.” It’s not a new question — and it draws on ...
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Guest Post from Robyn Bolton |
To Cede, or to Seed, that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of a down quarter or year, Or to take arms against the Tyranny of Now ... And by opposing ...
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Guest Post from Mike Shipulski
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Novelty, or newness, can be a great way to assess the status of things. The level of novelty is a barometer for the level of uncertainty and unpredictability. If you haven’t done it before, it’s novel and you should expect the work to be uncertain and unpredictable. If you’ve done it before, it’s not novel and ...
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For about two years now, I’ve been hearing the same prediction at conferences, in elevator pitches and at the occasional awkward dinner party: AI is going to write all the code, so the people who write code are finished. Usually the person saying it has the calm, slightly sad expression of someone delivering news about ...
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Guest Post from Shep Hyken |
Business is about allocating resources to achieve business objectives. And for that, the best place to start is to define the business objectives. First – what is the timeframe of the business objectives? Well, there are three – short, medium and long. Short is about making payroll, shipping this month’s orders and ...
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Guest Post from Greg Satell |
When Jack Welch took the helm at General Electric in 1981, it marked the beginning of a new era. Corporations would no longer coddle workers, but would slash costs, close factories and focus on increasing shareholder value. By 1999 he had increased revenues from $26.8 billion to nearly $130 billion and in 2000 ...
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