14 Famous Pivots
“A man plans; God laughs”; this old saying reminds us that reality can easily upset even the most thoughtful plans. In the commercial realm, many people start businesses that focus on a given product and/or market only to find they misjudged a market, that a competitor is too formidable or that an even better idea presents […]
COVID Tracker:
CovidActNowIHME (Institute for Health Metrics) Projections.Our World in DataCase Fatality Rate – Ticking down.Deaths – US Deaths per million people, Down a littleHospital Admissions – continuing to drop in the US, but still above previous lows. After almost a year of posting, this will be our last Covid Tracker blog article.
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. I will […]
Vistage Webinars for All
For Our Friends Outside the C-Level FamilyThese webinars from Vistage Research are available to Vistage Members and Non-members alike.Cutting-Edge Decision-Making Resources from Vistage ResearchEvents open to Members and non-Members
Econ Recon
No Place Like Home: Many businesspeople are beginning to show concerns about a possible recession as layoffs increase at larger companies that may have over hired. Recessions may be inevitable, but the pain is not always equally distributed geographically. ITR Economics’ Connor Lokar thinks that if you have endure a downturn, North America a good place to be. Abundance […]
55 Gadgets
Innovation is not always about big advances. Some of the ideas that make our lives better are rather prosaic. The “Unforgettable Gadgets” Website offers what it calls “55 Weird Gadgets that Help People Over 55 Years Old.” Being well past 55, I take exception to its title, if for no other reason that many people […]
A Scalability Decalogue
Vistage strategy speaker Marc Emmer recently shared “In my travels speaking to Vistage groups, I regularly ask members, “What is your top strategic priority?” Often the answer is scalability.” The next question is How do I actually scale my business? “Check out his recent short article on the Vistage website “The 10 essentials of scalability.” It may help […]
Truly, A Vehicle for Change
One of America’s best innovations was compulsory public education. To be sure, public education is constantly embroiled in controversy today, but we should not forget the effect on culture and individual lives that a basic, free education had on the development of early America. But in what was once a mostly rural country, you couldn’t educate anyone […]
Three Urgent Pivots
We’re still trying to sort out how to deal with Work from Home (or anywhere) and its impact on productivity, culture, and the War for Talent. Any answer will be company specific, requiring hard work and hard thinking; no “one size fits all” solutions are likely to be found. Maybe some data will help you define your […]
An Alternative On-Ramp
At the end of WWII, the leaders in the Federal Government realized that 16 million Americans would be returning home from foreign postings in a very short time and flood the labor market, recreating the Great Depression that the advent of the war had ended. To mitigate this, the Congress passed the “GI Bill” which provided […]
