As a young doctor in Vienna, Ignasz Semmelweis observed that the habit of washing hands by the medical staff significantly decreased the mortality rate of women giving birth in the Vienna hospital. Since bacteria would be discovered by Louis Pasteur […]
January 14, 2017
Walt Disney was once asked about the amazing speed of building the first Disney theme park: “How did you do this in 365 days?” a baffled reporter asked. “Well,” replied Walt Disney dryly, “we used all of them.” Future business […]
When the notion of kingdom came to the city of Uruk in ancient Sumer, it introduced a great many civilization firsts: the first king, the first laws, the first script, the first cattle and the first grains. Under the shadows […]
About three years ago, a group of senior executives enthusiastically told me that the massive success of their business was driven by strategic clarity, a relentless focus on the few things that matter and, finally, a culture of powerful execution. […]
How do you deal with email overload and become an email productivity ninja? I have come across dozens of techniques. I have tried them all. Here is my top three: 1. Apply the two minute rule. Your inbox is not […]
Recently, a senior operations executive shared with me his biggest frustration with his talented engineers. “You know,” he said, “every time my high-potential engineers join a business meeting with senior leaders, they end up with a list of action points. […]
You never get the new results you want from the activities you like. (If this weren’t the case, you would have gotten these results already.) People generally fall in love with approaches that have given them the best results in […]
You are compensated according to the value you deliver to others. This is the case whether you own a business, work for an organization or operate as an independent professional. Therefore, if you want to increase your compensation, you first […]
In my work with high performance organizations, I have come across five leadership mindsets which separate the good from the excellent. How would you rate yourself and your organization on each of these? 1. Is ‘doing more’ the default answer […]
If you don’t have a process for selling, you are at the mercy of someone else’s process for buying. In my experience, the biggest overlooked opportunity for a systematic and predictable business growth process is risk reversal. Let me explain. […]
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