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Steve Portigal (@steveportigal) author of Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights is next weeks podcast guest. Steve is fascinated by the stuff of a culture – its products, companies, consumers, media, and advertising. As he says, all these artifacts and the relationships between them are the rules that define a culture — the stuff Read More …
Sales and marketing can no longer operate in a vacuum. It has become a process output that intertwines across many of the departments within the organization. As companies have become flat, their decision making is increasingly being done by committee. As a supplier, you must mimic your customer decision-making path and as a result your Read More …
In a recent podcast, Scenario Thinking the Next Big Thing, with George Wright, co-author of Scenario Thinking: Practical Approaches to the Future, I asked, “When we are looking at different alternatives to the future, we paint a picture with scenarios? George: Yes, the scenarios are descriptions of the future often constructed by management teams. They Read More …
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of “grit” as a predictor of success. Is it about Read More …
Craig Weber offers excellent advice and material on the most basic way of creating success, our conversations. An excerpt from the Business901 podcast, Working Conversations; We don’t focus on the conversations much, partly because we lack the frameworks. We’ve got a lot of good frameworks and strategies out there for how to structure an organization, Read More …
What will drive Leader Standard Work is the “Why” more so than the “How”. The “Why” provides the clear strategic intent which will provide the fuel for Leader Standard Work. This analogy is wonderfully described in David Mann’s Book Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions, Second Edition where he uses the automotive Read More …