Posted in Charles Spinosa, Corporate Culture, Donald N. Sull, Harvard Business Review, Management, Strategy on April 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Most of the vexing challenges leaders face – improperly executed strategy, lack of organizational agility, disengaged employees, and so on – stem from broken or poorly crafted commitments. Executives can overcome some of their thorniest problems in the short term and foster productive, reliable workforces for the long term by practicing what we call ‘promise-based [...]
Posted in Appeal, IP, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Marketing, Verizon, Vonage on April 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
About a month ago – after a Federal court issued an injunction which prevented Vonage from signing up new customers during their appeals process – there were those in the media who were predicting the impending death of Vonage. Well now after an Appeals court granted Vonage’s grant for an extended stay, it appears that [...]
Posted in Edgy Eft, Fiesty Fawn, Linux, OS, Technology, Ubuntu on April 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Late last week, I decided to upgrade two of my PCs from Ubuntu’s v6.10 (Edgy Eft) to the beta release of v7.04 aka Fiesty Fawn. Now while I have mentioned before that I have “tech-tendencies” but not nearly as tech savvy as many of you, I found the upgrade process to be extremely easy. Better [...]
Posted in Corporate Culture, Ethics, HR, Harvard Business Review, Leadership, Nasty People, Productivity, Rant, Robert Sutton, The No Asshole Rule on April 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I recently re-read the Robert Sutton article entitled Nasty People. This article, which helped lead the way to his recently published book The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace, discusses the impact that employees who create a hostile work environment have on others and the organization itself. I immediately began to reflect on the [...]
Posted in Business Plans, Corporate Culture, Harvard Business Review, Innovation, Marketing, Product Development, Product Launch, Product Management, Steelchase, Strategy on April 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The April 2007 edition of the Harvard Business Review contained the article “Preparing for the perfect product launch” by James P. Hackett, President and CEO of Steelcase. Hackett does a wonderful job of explaining the troubles that many organizations face when developing and launching new products and services – failing to adequately think out and [...]
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