On March 4, 2011

Can You Define Good Management Technique?

With due respect to some of the great thinkers who have, I don’t understand how anybody even tries to define, teach, or even predict good management technique.

Even if it’s just one manager and one person being managed,…

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Need to Cut Through Complexity and Just Get Things Done?

Complexity. We all complain about it. Between meetings and reports, email and voice mails, time-consuming processes and convoluted decision-making hierarchies, a lot of us are wondering how anything gets done. With globalization, it seems that complexity is only getting more…

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Just What Does It Mean to Be “Anti-Business”?

George Buckley, the CEO of 3M, made a few headlines earlier this week when he told the Financial Times that Barack Obama is "anti-business" and "Robin-Hood-esque." I've been thinking about Buckley's words — in large part because I'm…

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Delivering the Speech of Your Life

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In 10th grade I joined the debate team. The 1976-77 National Forensic League debate topic, used by high schools everywhere, was "Resolved: That a comprehensive program of penal reform should be…

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RIM Gets Desperate: Brings Messenger to Android, iOS

Research in Motion's plans for stripped down Android version for BlackBerry Messenger is necessary to stop customer flight and maybe even win some converts.

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Entrepreneur Makeover: From Geek-in-Chief to Head Hottie

Giantnerd's Randall Weidberg gets a style makeover and goes from geek-in-chief to head hottie.No tags for this post.

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Did Social Media Kill the Marketing Star?

Here we go again …

Have you read the news today? Looks like marketing is dead once more.

You know … all you need now is a Twitter handle, a Facebook page and an authentically huge digital smile…

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Consulting for the Evil Empire

During the foul-mouthed film Clerks, a bunch of overgrown adolescents huddle around the counter of a convenience store, grappling with the ethics of Return of the Jedi. Was it moral to blow up the second Death Star, even though it…