People ask me WHY I wrote THE ROOT CAUSE: Rethink Your Approach To Solving Stubborn Enterprise-Wide Problems? So, let me tell you. Back at university in good old Amsterdam, I once noticed a connection between what the professor in Finance said with what the professor in Marketing had said previously. Looking to verify …
People ask me WHY I wrote THE ROOT CAUSE: Rethink Your Approach To Solving Stubborn Enterprise-Wide Problems? So, let me tell you. The CEO of a commercial real estate brokerage firm asked me to help him replace a series of separate (Act) databases with a single one. Het never told me that what he …
People ask me WHY I wrote THE ROOT CAUSE: Rethink Your Approach To Solving Stubborn Enterprise-Wide Problems? So, let me tell you. What is your FIRST reaction when everyone agrees there is a BIG problem, and everyone denies making any mistakes; they are just doing their jobs? I was assigned that project …
The function of a business is to trade products and/or services for money; to exchange use value for cash value. BUT, do you know how much value (utility) you create? Business is a system; a network of nodes and their connections, which facilitate the function for which the business was intended. Think of nodes as …
Who is “HE” in the Pogo cartoon? HE is the enemy!HE is an opposing force that makes the simple difficult and the difficult seemingly impossible. Where does HE make his presence most frequently known?At the cutting edge; right there at the interface between your front line people and the public at large―your buyers, …
Competition exists when two or more businesses offer SIMILAR products or services, aimed at satisfying the SAME need as expressed by members of the SAME market segment, within the SAME market place. Creating a Competitive Advantage is a matter of improving one’s operational EFFECTIVENESS, which can be accomplished by either: Operating a transformation process similar …
The US Marine Corps manual Warfighting describes FRICTION as: … the force that resists all action and saps energy. It makes the simple difficult and the difficult seemingly impossible. How often do YOU, as a responsible decision maker, encounter friction and conflict? How often have you uttered the words “If only [fill in the …
Back in 1937, Napoleon Hill wrote in his famous book Think and Grow Rich: This “missing link” in all systems of education known to civilization today, may be found in the failure of educational institutions to teach their students HOW TO ORGANIZE AND USE KNOWLEDGE AFTER THEY ACQUIRE IT. To organize means to structure or …
Not all business advice has to come from business books, magazines, lectures, or seminars. After all, so much wisdom can be imparted from OUTSIDE the confines, boxes or categories labelled “Business”, “Management” or “Leadership.” There is one caveat though and that is you will not find it neatly packaged in single bite-size portions, or presented in any …
It was Yogi Berra[i] who said “When you reach a fork in the road . . . take it.” That’s all fine and dandy, but doesn’t that raise some questions for you regarding the significance of that fork in the road? For example, Why does the road you’re on bifurcate at all? Why here …