Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2014

I wrote 1,000 words a week and documented hundreds of ideas. The balance of this week and next will be spent (actually invested) by thinking about, doing, and documenting the following: Making one plan to make a longtime dream a reality. List grateful acts of 2013. My results? I finished the 21.5 Unbreakable Laws of Selling.

Customer Loyalty 50

Customer Loyalty Document Competitive Advantage Seminar 50

QAspire

MAY 13, 2021

Bell in 2013 when they released their book Managers as Mentors. With a firm belief that great ideas need to be repeatedly shared, I am re-posting the 2013 interview along with a revised sketchnote summary. I had the wonderful privilege of interviewing Sir Marshall Goldsmith and Chip R. The preamble to risk is courage. How does it help?

Mentor 172

Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Books 172

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. ” (After I first flagged his posting, in 2015, Uber removed the document from its site. But Archive.org kept a copy.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The dissertation became a book, titled What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences (HBR Press, 2013). One of the changes I document in the book is how Goldman drifted from a focus on ethical standards of behavior to legal ones — from what one “should” do to what one “can” do.

Banking 9

Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

For more on data ethics, go here.). I went a little further: The services here are for women, and the population of women changed between 2006 and 2013. Someone could make the argument that my chart doesn’t include “interim” data between 2006 and 2013. What if funding for cancer screenings changed dramatically?

PR 8

PR Ethics Engineering Metrics 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Review your investment portfolio to identify certain appreciated positions to sell now before taxes potentially increase in 2013. Medicare tax that will be imposed on certain investment income for higher income Americans beginning in 2013. The Social Security tax holiday is designed to leave more money in our paychecks.

Press Release 178

Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This is well documented in research; over-reliance on extrinsic motivators (such as letter grades and standardized tests) crowd out creative problem solving, as written about in The Progress Principle and Drive.". I don't know what hard skills I may need in 2030, 2020, or even 2013.

Education 9

Education Incentives Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 9