Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In the 1940’s there was a beautiful actress, Hedy Lamarr (think Angelina Jolie ), who along with composer George Antheil received a patent for their invention of a classified communication system that was especially useful to submarines in World War II. Did you know that Catherine Litchfield Greene invented the cotton gin?

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

With hiring freezes and layoffs, companies increasingly are asking themselves how to produce the results they need with limited or decreasing human resources. Others are slower to adapt their systems to handle "nontraditional" work resources into their processes. Some companies get it immediately.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

So while other business blogs are looking at this situation and wondering what went wrong, I’m asking “what can we learn?” The postal situation is not unique and what it highlights is how the wrong type of organizational culture can kill even a giant like the postal system.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Do their systems integrate with yours? The IRS uses a 20 Factor Analysis to determine Independent Contractor status, if you answer that you are responsible for at least ten of these areas you need to consider reevaluating their status. Do you tell them when, where and how to work? Do you provide them with training? Is it contract specific.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

It isn’t entirely fair to heap all of the blame onto the CEO’s; there was another broken system at play, the Board of Directors. If we take past behavior as the best predictor of risk, HP’s new CEO seems pretty risky. HP Has Historically Had an Ineffective Board.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Communication, respect and understanding between those in support roles and those with direct client contact is really a business imperative. After all, if the stage is not solid and the systems that make it work, faulty, the quality of the end product is often less than ideal.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

How is your company’s leadership making informed decisions about the arrangement of your company as a complex system of many moving and interconnected parts — including organizational capabilities, resources, and management systems — all aimed at fulfilling one overarching purpose?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Let go So by now you’ve made a heavy investment in someone’s development to the extent that s/he is now a top performer. Letting go is hard but it’s also an important part of organizational, and personal, development. Maybe then, more would be willing to develop these soft, yet hard, skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Currently in the business world we are witnessing something like the epic collision of two galaxies — a rapid convergence of two very unlike systems that will cause the elements of both to realign. For managers, this development creates challenges both long term and urgent. It''s all thanks to the Internet of Things.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

As you think about how you want to learn and grow this year, don’t fall victim to the common trap of building your development plan around a formal learning program. Finally, focusing on formal development can reinforce a passive mindset and leave you with the false impression that your development is in someone else’s hands.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Running a small business is tough. Body of Knowledge.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Often, it withers and dies an early death. Body of Knowledge.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Develop a true corporate culture. Systems-Processes.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Systems and Processes. Often, it withers and dies an early death.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 29, 2009

The truth is that democracy in the workplace is a complex system however you choose to look at it. To be truly democratic, organizations must consider processes that include voting systems, debates, adversarial processes and systems of appeal. Decisions, democratically reached, typically take a lot longer than in other systems.

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