Making sense of strategy: Explore this insight post from Boston Consulting's Martin Reeves at HBR: Does Your Strategy Match Your Competitive Environment? Organizations don't perceive their position correctly against the competitive landscape. Key insight is here: These distinctions are so important because the four different strategic environments require four different … [Read more...] about Making Sense of Strategy
Archives for 2012
How to Unshackle Yourself from E-mail
On this Harvard Business Review blog this morning, Daniel Markovitz, wrote a piece titled: How to Break Free from Email Jail. I appreciate Daniel's manufacturing analogy of creating a pull system for information. His designs make sense. However, what Daniel doesn't acknowledge is that outside of manufacturing, most organizations don't run like manufacturing floors. … [Read more...] about How to Unshackle Yourself from E-mail
How to Design a Meeting Infographic
How to Design a Meeting Infographic This infographic captures the basic principles of meeting design based on the Management by Design methodology. It derives from the consideration of balance and purpose, and the use of technology considered ahead of its use. For more details read about the DOs here and DON'Ts here. You can find meeting preparation advice … [Read more...] about How to Design a Meeting Infographic
How to Design A Meeting: Meeting Preparation
Rethinking Meeting Preparation We all run meetings like we know what we're doing. We have been to so many meetings we just know how to run them. What we really know is how to model and perpetuate the poor habits and practices of our mentors and coaches, managers, and colleagues. In the era of collaboration software, our meetings need to be redesigned so they are driven … [Read more...] about How to Design A Meeting: Meeting Preparation
Ten Ways to Keep Customers Close
Ten Ways to Keep Customers Close In a turbulent economy, it is just as important, perhaps more so, to keep current customers close, as it is to fill the pipeline with new customers. The loss of a current customer translates into an immediate reduction of current and future revenue, and the need to invest in acquiring a replacement customer of equal or greater value. Better to … [Read more...] about Ten Ways to Keep Customers Close