A set of questions I was recently asked that I thought might shed some light on how I think and what I do: What is your experience in project management, especially for startups? In some respect, everything is a project. In startups that I have worked we have spent most of our time on finding Read More …
I am a big fan of Laurence Gonzales book Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things, who was introduced to me by Bill Dettmer of Theory of Constraints fame and past podcast participant, Systematizing your approach to management, Podcast with Bill Dettmer. I have also created several blog post from Laurence’s book, If Nothing Read More …
In a recent blog post and several others, Increase your Innovation Capacity: Manage your Sphere of Influence, I contend that the typical tools such as marketing funnels, customer journeys or sales cycles limits us to Goods-dominant logic (GD-logic) thinking and prevents us from viewing from the perspective of Service Dominant Logic (SD-Logic). If that is Read More …
Hoshin Kanri is a management system that creates a method of policy deployment in the form of both organizational and employees goals. It is a step by step implementation and review process from a systems approach perspective for change. In the simplest form, top management sets a vision and bottom line employee sets the tactics. Read More …
Leigh Ashton is the author of iSell and head of The Sales Consultancy. She specializes in helping people incorporate psychology alongside technical selling skills – leading to positive changes to their attitude, their approach and their sales results. Leigh works with business owners, directors, managers and sales teams to identify and eliminate their psychological barriers, Read More …
David Shaked of Almond-Insight has just finished his book, Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma: Building Positive and Engaging Business Improvement. Using various strength-based approaches such as Appreciative Inquiry, David has created a radically different way to approach Lean Six Sigma. He calls this method Strength-Based Lean Six Sigma. David is a Master Black Belt formerly with Read More …