This is a transcription of a podcast, Best Practice for Self Coaching – Leadership 901 that I had with Howard Guttman principal of Guttman Development Strategies, Inc. (GDS), a Mount Arlington, NJ-based management consulting firm. When discussing Howard’s new book, Coach Yourself to Win: 7 Steps to Breakthrough Performance on the Job and In Your Read More …
Jason Kilgore is much more than just your typical Lean Six Sigma consultant. I ran across Jason on the web answering a LinkedIn question about internal and external consultants. He spoke highly of each, gave practical common sense answers on when to use them and sold nothing! He caught my attention and I went surfing. Read More …
Cisco took a stand with this company where they solved the problem first before providing a solution. Of course, this could have been risky business if they would not have won the business. If so, I doubt they would have made the video. This video is a great depiction of future marketing. Sales and marketing Read More …
At the Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play — with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn’t). Tim Brown is the CEO of innovation and design firm IDEO, taking an approach to design that digs deeper than the surface. Read More …
New ideas come from networks and forming new networks create new ideas! People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London’s coffee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s high-velocity web. Great Read More …
Recently on a podcast I had with Chad Smith of the Constraints Management Group I asked the question, “Why did McGraw-Hill come to Carol and him to write the new edition of Orlickys Materials Requirements Planning 3/E?” He told a very interesting story which I paraphrase below: The problem is that the market really doesn’t Read More …