“From Around the Web” is a regular series of gathered articles, case studies, and statistics highlighting different themes in transformational leadership excellence across a variety of industries demonstrating how businesses successfully deliver transformation efforts within their companies.... Read more...
The emergence of Organizational Change Management as the panacea to achieve success in accomplishing business initiatives, process improvements, and applying newer technologies has created a cottage industry of “change management” consultants, methodologies, and tools. MSS, being a key player ... Read more...
On the heels of 2016, the third strongest year on record for Mergers and Acquisitions, there appears to be momentum to continue and even grow the number of previous year transactions. According to FactSet, S&P 500 businesses retained over $1.5 trillion in “dry powder” as of 3Q16. Pri... Read more...
At the root of every issue comes a problem that all leaders of organizations must face: How do you create a quality service with few resources, and inexperienced people. This is the same issue my Father ran into when he was trying to make our family successful with only my mother and himself trying ... Read more...
Are Customers a Burden to Your Employees? This is one of my favorite ambiguous quotes from the internet about how businesses deal with customers. Depending on the source, the quote has been attributed to LL Bean, to Mahatma Gandhi or to some guy who wrote a book in the 1950’s: A customer is the ... Read more...
A Case of Disruption When President Prakash D.’s digital native company merged with an iconic industry leader, he knew that his new partners hoped to make an exponential leap, transforming the incumbent player into a digital, software-driven mega force. Several cutting-edge technological innovati... Read more...
Last week, Lisa Leiter at Crains Chicago wrote a great article "When Should a Startup Worry About Making Money?" It raised good questions on when a startup should focus on driving growth vs. driving profits. It is an important topic for startup executives to understand the underlying issues, an... Read more...
Something new is happening in sports and particularly basketball. I first noticed it when I had the chance to attend several pro basketball games for my business. One of the games I attended featured the Golden State Warriors who, if you know NBA basketball, is one of the more successful teams of ... Read more...
The world has become VUCA. After the Cold War, the US Military came to something of a revelation. Without a clear power counterbalance from the USSR, the world became a much more challenging place. Suddenly, they were in a situation without a single, clear, predictable enemy but many potential ad... Read more...
I have always been fascinated by the sport of mountain climbing. Recently, I was watching a movie on climbing Mt. Everest in which they described the Death Zone - the region above 26,000 feet where a climber’s body starts to die. They had my attention. At 8,000 meters (26k ft.) and above, the a... Read more...