The Learning Cycle of Academic Research = Formal PDCA

An excerpt from tomorrow’s podcast with David Wilkinson, founder, and editor of The Oxford Review Note: This is a transcription of an interview. It has not gone through a professional editing process and may contain grammatical errors or incorrect formatting. Joe Dager: I do not think most people understand the rigors of academic research. Is Read More …

The Oxford Review Publishes First Annual Review

From the pages of the Oxford-Review comes over 250 of the most practical & useful research findings The inaugural offering of The Oxford Annual Review has released to the public. It is titled The 2016/17 Oxford Review of Organizational Research and is available on Amazon and other book outlets in the paperback version. It contains Read More …

Do You Validate Your Sources? 

Does your company or yourself have standards other than common sense? I am not innocent in my contributions to social media but seldom if ever use a hyperlink that I have not tested beforehand. I know this sounds elementary to my question but it illustrates my point. If you trust the party that shared it, do you check Read More …

Start-Up Insights into People and Culture

Author of numerous books and articles, Dr. Harris has recently authored “Lessons For Non-Profit and Start-Up Leaders: Tales of a Reluctant CEO.”  I will say I was somewhat reluctant to do the podcast, and not sure where it was going to go but undoubtedly this is one of best podcast I have had for start-ups. Her insight Read More …

Is Your Sales Team Positioned for the Future?

What is not distributed now will become distributed. – Unknown If we believe the above statement, what will our sales force look like in the future? How will it be distributed? William Gibson is credited with the well-known saying, “The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.” I would attest that our present sales efforts in most instances are to Read More …

The Problem with Lean, Is the Problem

Can Lean be used for more than Problem-Solving? When we think of Lean whether as a toolset or as a culture, our immediate thought is steered towards problem-solving, the Kaizen Spirit. It is truly the definitive aspect of Lean. It is so prevalent that most outsiders to Lean are convinced that Lean is not applicable Read More …