Strategy

Today, we welcome the participants in Group VI of the IT Leaders Program who are starting their first workshop.  Welcome to the Tuesday Readings, gleanings from my readings that I hope you might find interesting, provocative, and otherwise useful. Today’s reading is a review of Eric Bonabeau’s “Hunch Engine” which appeared in a recent Technology […]

In the April 1, 2006 issue of Business 2.0, Jeffrey Pfeffer,  Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford’s Graduate School of  Business, argues that it pays to invest in leaders who blame  themselves when things go wrong.  His focus is on CEOs and he uses  the metric of stock prices in his argument.   However, the […]

  I really enjoy reading Rick Brenner who writes the email newsletter  from Chaco Canyon Consulting.  The last two issues of the newsletter  has focused on tactics for tough times:        http://www.ChacoCanyon.com/pointlookout/060201.shtml        http://www.ChacoCanyon.com/pointlookout/060208.shtml   In these two pieces Rick focuses on problem solving:      – What problem as I […]

In the February 23rd and the March 16th issues of the Point Lookout email newsletter, Rich Brenner and the staff at Chaco Canyon Consulting <http://www.ChacoCanyon.com> present two helpful pieces on “Recovering Time.”  Given that all of us scramble to find more time for our work, I thought that I would share their ideas with you. […]