Best Blogs
I resource material for your “edification, enlightenment, and enjoyment” from many sources. I will continue to provide specific recommendations as above for the content I think is worthwhile. But if you don’t find anything to your liking above, check out this list of the best (in my opinion) blogs, websites etc. for the C-Level Executive […]
A Predictable Growth Primer
Most companies want predictable growth but lack a rigorous process for creating it. Strategyn consulting firm Founder Tony Ulwick (who the late Clayton Christensen credits with “bringing predictability to innovation”} offers a short primer on the requirements for such a process…and three related functions for winning products and services. Maybe it’s time to ask in your organization “Who […]
Manufacturing’s “Shocking Reality”
For many people, the economy they see is IT, finance, and retail. But at the end of the day, we all need “stuff”….and “stuff” has to be manufactured. The American way of life has been made possible by the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century and further augmented by the application of computer technology to manufacturing in […]
Talent Tactics for SMBs
Small to Medium-size Businesses, often complain, not without justification, that large companies have an advantage when it comes to hiring. A group of middle-sized company executives recently met at the US Military Academy at West Point “from across a range of industries at the historic Thayer Hotel inside the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for […]
Civics Lesson: “A Bucket of Warm Spit”
John Nance Gardner: Vice President of the United States 1933-1941 One of the most controversial elections in decades will be held in less than 60 days. This missive has always striven to non-political, but there are aspects of the election that C-Level executives may find helpful, practical, or at least interesting to learn about regardless […]
“The Breakthrough Fallacy”
Humans are the only animals that tell stories and none more important than the stories we tell about our successes (and failures). When we look at our lives, we find dramatic moments that we believe rightly or wrongly explain how we got to where we are. The truth, according to Mark Manson, is much more pedestrian. Understanding […]
Best Blogs
I resource material for your “edification, enlightenment, and enjoyment” from many sources. I will continue to provide specific recommendations as above for the content I think is worthwhile. But if you don’t find anything to your liking above, check out this list of the best (in my opinion) blogs, websites etc. for the C-Level Executive from […]
Econ Recon: Ups…and Downs
GDP Revised Upward: Second quarter GDP was revised upward from 2.8% to 3.0%.! But according to economist Brian Wesbury, there’s another metric moving up that may be more important. Check out a this one page recap Q2 GDP….and other things. Conifidence Index is Down: GDP may be up but that’s a backward-looking metric. How about what’s ahead. This executive […]
The Coming HR Storm
Vistage Speaker and employment law expert Hunt Lott looks ahead at HR and shares some high level concerns and warnings in his recent “Take 5 Video” in which he shares the three biggest forces affecting HR in the next decade. In this post he cites he cites an article by SHRM president Johnny C. Taylor that you may […]
Tool or Tutor?
New technologies are usually accompanied by an initial frenzy when large amounts of time, talent and treasure are thrown at a new technology leading to a bubble, a bursting and then the real long term build out begins. Prior examples include electricity, railroads, the internet and now AI. AI Thought Leader Greg Shove has a blog […]
