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Customers are king…

Over the last few years, we have seen more and more conversations that popped up about the way that business is being disrupted by technology, globalization, and new business models. Technology has done a great deal to change the way that we do business in this country and countries around the globe. There are a […]
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You can’t fight the future

I think if we are look critically at the election of Donald Trump, we see that he won the election for the future of America by putting a stake in the ground to claim the past. Which, again, if we are being critical about the factors in play: we realize plays out in a number […]
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Managing In Modern Times…

  I’ve been on a bit of a reading binge lately. What I have been reading is a lot of the classic business texts that laid the foundation for much of what we consider best practices now. One of my favorites is Managing For Results by Peter Drucker because it is the first book on […]
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Do You Use Ignorance As A Tool?

  Peter Drucker once told a class about how he would practice “ignorance.” This means that he went to each situation with the beginner’s mind or like he had no clue what was going on. In leading a workshop about two weeks ago with some non-profit executives, this idea of “ignorance” struck me in the […]
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Conventional Wisdom Isn’t Wisdom At All

  I find myself fighting conventional wisdom at every turn lately. I guess that is the nature of mature economies and economies where there is a great deal of strife, uncertainty, and lack of innovation. Or, maybe its the conventional wisdom that drives the lack of innovation. Either way, I have been leading a number […]
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A new kind of artist

I love art: books, music, painting… And, I love artists: Dylan, Eddie Vedder, Michael Stipe, Picasso. Today, I want to propose a new class of artists….and they sometimes wear suits and ties and ride the subway…they are businesspeople like Seth Godin, Alan Weiss, and Peter Drucker. While we don’t look at business as an art, […]
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