Over my many years as a business practitioner and amateur researcher/reader, I have been trying to "figure out" business, in all of its fascinating complexity. By being able to break it down into it's component pieces I hope to be able to better ... [Continue Reading]
Tainted Supply Chain — here we go again…
In the June 18th 2011 issue of the Economist newspaper (look -- it's in a magazine format, it gets issued weekly, it looks, feels, and smells like a magazine -- why do they insist on calling it a newspaper...??? That's my only criticism of the ... [Continue Reading]
Humor — the best preparation for crazy interview questions?
I recall at various times when going through formal job interviews being asked the odd "crazy" question that had little to do with the company or the role I was being interviewed for. They were questions like: "what is the weight -- in kilos -- of a ... [Continue Reading]
Porter’s “Shared Value” idea: Where’s the Beef?
As I have been exploring various pathways of my "business detox" investigations, a number of colleagues have suggested that I really needed to read Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's (apparently provocative) HBR article entitled "The Big Idea: Creating ... [Continue Reading]
Who’s in charge here?
I came across a wonderful blog post today from fellow blogger "The HR Capitalist". I'm a fairly recent reader of his and while I'm much more of a business guy than an HR guy I do like his take on the intersection of HR and business. His post is ... [Continue Reading]
100 days of stepping out
I've been focused on walking my 10,000 steps per day for several months now, so I thought I would provide a quick update on my progress here. I first mentioned my "new walking habit" in this blog post... What does this have to do with business ... [Continue Reading]
In Praise of Older Workers
Now, as part of the tailing edge of the baby boomers myself, this all might seem to be somewhat self-serving to the younger audience, but hey, apparently there is a lot to be said about older workers -- not least that there are boatloads of us ... [Continue Reading]
The environment: Pricing the “priceless”
As I wrote about in an earlier blog entry, one of the ironies of living in a market based economy is that "if you truly believe something is priceless, you need to be prepared to put a price on it." You can rail against the injustice and preach the ... [Continue Reading]
Incentives Matter
One of the things that I have learned over my few decades of "business-as-trench-warfare" experience is that properly thought-out and structured performance incentives are a critical component in getting people inside an organization to "do the right ... [Continue Reading]
Serious jump in US unemployment duration…
Wow. Takes my breath away... I think there might be a few different things behind this alarming curve, however these are only my own speculation: ... [Continue Reading]
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