100 outcomes-driven CEOs
HBR's 100 Best CEOs in the World are leaders who delivered "solid results over the long run." They were picked based on two pieces of performance data:Total shareholder returnThe overall increase in...
View ArticleAmbition economy Vs Envy economy
"In an ambition economy, people generally enjoy watching others get ahead, because it reinforces their sense that they, too, can succeed," says the Dean of Harvard Business School. He mentions the US...
View ArticleWho is a fraud?
"If you see fraud and don't shout fraud, you are a fraud." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (who Independent calls a superhero of the mind)
View ArticleExplorer mentality Vs conqueror mentality
A fixation on competitors and on beating them is evidence of what Amazon's Jeff Bezos calls a conqueror mentality. In contrast, people waking up in the morning thinking how to innovate for the customer...
View Article"Un-Follow the leader"
"You sometimes hear "yes" to a question before you've even explained it," says Columbia Business School professor/scholar Michael Morris, who also runs a research lab in India. "It is great that people...
View ArticleThe IT-to-BT move: How CIOs can prep
Here's a 4-part video of "How CIOs Can Prepare for the Shfit from IT to BT" delivered recently by John Brand, VP & Principal Analyst, Forrester Research. Parts 3 and 4 were not loading when I last...
View ArticleA lot of humans, very little humanity?
A domestic servant we employed was badly hit by a motorcyclist. The motorcyclist offered to take the victim to a hospital. He put the victim in a taxi while he rode right in front as if to navigate the...
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Euromaxx: Happy Birthday and Thanks!
Courtesy: dw.euromaxx on facebookFor several years, I've been regularly watching (often, with family) Deutsche-Welle TV's award-winning daily show on European lifestyle. On June 30, they celebrated the...
View ArticleCelebrate with Lee Greenwood
Lee Greenwood, who wrote “God Bless the USA,” is a Grammy winning country music singer. I first saw him on Daystar TV. You may want to watch him talk and perform here.
View ArticleBose: how I switched to tiny
The audio salesperson seated me and my family in a small room at the store. We could see a pair of big box-like stuff in front of us, which I thought were speakers. You know, I love audio systems with...
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Leading a professional nonprofit
Two small professional nonprofits that I founded and led taught me a few things I'm sharing here. One organization was focused on business process management and the other on user interface design....
View ArticleBT and the Habits of Covey
You know Stephen Covey's 7 Habits. Three of his Habits are also habits of software teams in the BT era.Habit 2: Begin with the End in MindCovey: Begin with the "End in Mind" means to begin each day,...
View ArticleOn my 50th, I celebrate my family
My 50th birthday is about you – if you are part of what I will simply call "The Great Family" (some of the folks I mention here are outside my paternal/maternal circle, yet we're all like one big...
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Transient advantage in, Sustainable advantage out?
Courtesy: Amazon.comI pre-ordered and read the book, The End of Competitive Advantage. Author Rita McGrath presented the "Leading change" program I attended at Columbia Business School in 2008. More...
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The oil drilling model for software practice in the BT era
PreScouter Journal has published an article introducing my model that I've been calling "BT practice." Click to read.PreScouter is a US-based organization with the mission to expose innovations to the...
View ArticleWhy colleagues expose each other for bad behavior -- and why they don't
I just finished reading Columbia Business School professor Ernesto Reuben's article about whistleblowing in the workplace (Columbia Ideas at Work, Summer 2013).As I have led many small teams right from...
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The road from IT to BT has a MERGE sign
CXOs continue to complain about poor business alignment. Well-intentioned frameworks are being attempted. However, attempts to align IT with business is not going to succeed until business process...
View ArticleOil-drilling model: Thanks to contributors
It's never too early to say thanks. I want to express gratitude to those who helped me in various ways as I evolved the oil-drilling model (WIP was called BT practice). Folks at the following...
View ArticleWhat outcomes-driven is, What it is not
When I mention the oil-drilling model, one of the questions people frequently ask is, What do you really mean by business outcomes?Business outcomes are targeted objectives in three areas:Business...
View ArticleTransient competitive advantage: seminar in Mumbai
Columbia Business School professor Rita McGrath is presenting an executive seminar in Mumbai, India on Feb 25, 2014. She is author of the book about the end of sustainable competitive advantage, which...
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