The Disney Way Process

The process of The Disney Way is discussed in this short introduction to next week’s podcast with Bill Capodagli. With nearly three decades of management consulting and corporate research expertise, Bill co-authored the best-selling business book, The Disney Way, 3E: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company. The first edition was cited by Read More …

Startup Equation Transcript

Interview with the co-author Ja-Nae Duane of The Startup Equation: A Visual Guidebook to Building Your Startup 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.  Transcription of Interview Download PDF of Transcription  Joe:   Welcome everyone. This is Joe Dager, the Read More …

How Good is Your Digital Footprint?

Kristin Zhivago is president and co-founder of Cloud Potential LLC. They offer best-practice analysis and improvement of a company’s digital impact, mostly working with companies that have historically done well in their space but are now being surpassed – even blindsided – by those who operate at cloud speed and use cloud-based tools. They are instructing managers Read More …

Managing Your Sales Engagement

Download a PDF of the Host A3 Yesterday, I wrote about  The Solutions Focus: Making Coaching and Change SIMPLE by Paul Z Jackson and Mark McKergow in the blog post, Toyota Kata a Solution-Focused Approach? I actually found Solution Focus from reading McKergow latest book, Host: Six New Roles of Engagement.  In the book, the author uses Read More …

Toyota Kata a Solution-Focused Approach?

IDEO seemingly popularized the Design Thinking or the Solution-Focused type approach in businesses. It dates back much further than that to numerous people like Robert McKim, Nigel Cross and a host of others. A solution-focused approach has always been something that I have used especially in the design thinking approach when applying. EDCA (Explore-Do-Check-Act). In a Read More …