Key to Success may be as simple as Grit

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 …

The Conversational Sweetspot

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 …

Working Conversations

Craig is the founder of The Weber Consulting Group, an alliance of experts committed to helping organizations and teams build their capacity for engaging tough, wicked, adaptive challenges. He’s consulted to an expansive roster of world-class clients, helping them improve their performance by treating dialogue as a discipline. His unique work is outlined in his Read More …

Putting the OODA Loop in a Lean Perspective

A Lean Sales Method There has been a resurgence or maybe recognition of the use of the OODA Loop as a basis for much of the current ideas surrounding Iterations, Rapid Development Cycles and Decision Making. What makes the OODA Loop such a popular subject? When we first think of the OODA Loop, we think Read More …

The 5 Whys of a Lean Sales Conversation

I have found talking to little or too much are both ineffective ways to proceed in a sales conversation. When we discuss a Lean Sales Person, many people think of this problem solving person that is out finding the root cause and how their product/service could benefit the customer.  I have expressed my views on Read More …

Lean Sales Methods: Creative Cooperation

Citing Edward Wilson’s book, “The Social Conquest of Earth,” President Clinton explains why creative cooperators are often the most successful in coming together to solve problems, in both government and in the private sector. He starts out by stating that the “Earth has belonged to the cooperators. The great cooperator species are ants, termites, bees Read More …