The Lean Thinker on Value Enhancement

The guest on the Business901 podcast was Adam Zak (@leanthinker), founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Adam Zak Executive Search and an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years of experience spanning the areas of management consulting; financial and operations management; and talent acquisition. During the podcast I was able to ask questions Read More …

Better Communication take the focus off yourself

Drew Kugler is now in his fourth decade of helping people and organizations around the world make sustainable progress in developing their willingness to work together more productively. As Founder of the Kugler Company, he works with executives and professionals on the never-ending issues of communication, leadership, and collaboration. Clients from all walks of industry Read More …

Are you an influencer?

The word of business is changing. Your typical hierarchy structured in an organization chart may still exist but the age of communication has really changed the work structure and who is influencing the way you do work and from a marketing perspective how your customer is influenced.  Learn the basic concepts of influencing through this Read More …

Lean and Agile Stories eBook

This eBook is a transcription of the podcast, Stories of Lean and Agile with Claudio Perrone, aka Agile Sensei. Our podcast was a collection of his thoughts on the use of Agile and Kanban and his work in the development of presentations such as Crafting your Storyboard and The Rise of the Lean Machine Storybook. Read More …

Profiting from Customer Value

I had the pleasure this past week of interviewing the co-author of the book Strategy from the Outside In, Christine Moorman for an upcoming Business901 Podcast. Christine is the T. Austin Finch, Sr. Professor and founder of The CMO Survey at The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. She stated that many strategies such has Read More …

Work Will be Witnessing 10 Changes

  Gartner Says the World of Work Will Witness 10 Changes During the Next 10 Years The world of today is dramatically different from 20 years ago and with the lines between work and non-work already badly frayed, Gartner, Inc.  predicts that the nature of work will witness 10 key changes through 2020. Organizations will Read More …