Simon Waldman - who used to run the digital business at the Guardian newspaper and is now an executive at Lovefilms - is the author of an interesting new book entitled…

The odds of a successful acquisition are long — something research has proven time and again — yet executives show no signs of losing interest in M&A. Even Dell, famous for eschewing acquisitions in favor of organic growth, has thrown…

You’re telling a story.

Whether you know it or not, or intend to or not … you absolutely are.

Everything you do to market your business is another paragraph, page, or chapter in the story people hear from you.…

Dilma Rousseff, the new president of Brazil, has become the first woman to achieve the highest position of the country. She is widely known for being workaholic, very efficient, rigorous, and, above all, she is not recognized as a charismatic…

In the first two pieces in this series we looked at defining customer experience, and using a customer journey map to gain more insight into how customers engage with your organization. A customer journey looks at…

The $300 House:

• The Challenge
• The Financial Challenge
• The Design Challenge
• The Energy Challenge
• The Co-Creation Challenge

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and…

The Book: Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down by John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead, Harvard Business Press, Hardcover, October 2010.

The difficulty in trying to get an entire organization to buy into a change initiative…

At Ford Motor Company, we've spent the last few years engineering a well-recognized turnaround. One of the key tools we've used to accomplish it is something we call the 24-Hour Rule. It's a management practice based on a…