selling-horses-and-seeing-systems 
Deming Institute
AUGUST 28, 2017
In consideration of the fine line between business and crime, poet Robert Frost once offered his advice on the secret to selling a horse; “Take care to sell your horse before he dies. Given their record profits, should they be paying more in taxes? With binary simplicity, what is legal is not illegal.
Kevin Eikenberry
SEPTEMBER 6, 2010
You may have never thought of it as a walk, but that is how others see it. You’ve heard the phrase: people want to see leaders who will walk their talk. It is the journey we take each day as a leader. We move through our day, going from one task to the next, one meeting to the next, one problem to the next. What do I mean?
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Strategy Driven
MAY 19, 2016
Information, when used to influence or sell, advise or share, has cost us untold loss in business and relationships. When we present rational data, or make arguments based on logic or wisdom or knowledge, and hope it will sway an opinion or get a new decision made, we’re putting the cart before the horse. It actually causes resistance.
Skip Prichard
DECEMBER 2, 2019
We have to do other things correctly—we have to ride horses correctly, we have to sell food correctly. Crafting purpose comes from a leader’s own value system. It was the Buckleys who came up with the name The Home Depot. How do we integrate that philosophy? Blank Family Foundation. I’ll be 76 the end of this month.
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
Information, when used to influence or sell, has cost us untold loss in business and relationships. When we present rational data, or make arguments based on logic or wisdom or knowledge, and hope it will sway an opinion or get a new decision made, we're putting the cart before the horse. It actually causes resistance. Irrational?
Harvard Business Review
JULY 4, 2017
Tim Cook recently confirmed that Apple is working on ‘autonomous systems.’ With that in mind, I can see three potential scenarios for how Apple might play in the autonomous car market. With that in mind, I can see three potential scenarios for how Apple might play in the autonomous car market.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Once compromised, our phones offer easy access to our personal and financial information, giving hackers the ability to sell that information on the dark web and to ransom our information. Yet mobile device security often gets less attention than security for network systems or even our laptop computers. Think of it as a Trojan horse.
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