“The Constant Challenge” at eBay
“CEO Meg Whitman on balancing buyers’ and sellers’ needs, the pace of change, and why she finds the business ‘endlessly surprising.’”
Storytelling for Leaders
“Storytelling is a powerful communication tool that marketing and advertising professionals use very skillfully to promote their companiesí products or services. But did you know that stories are also effective as a leadership tool? Many of the most admired US companies have for years used stories to convey values, vision and behaviors that lead to success.”
100 Best Places to Work in IT
“Imaginative perks sweeten the pot. But hard-to-achieve basics like leading technologies, personal investment and a sense of fulfillment are what will make IT employees stay put in a changing economy. This year’s top 100 companies have figured out how to give workers the substance along with the frills.”
Leaky Applications in Computers and Life
“Once again, it’s Friday morning and there are at least a half dozen top priorities for the week still undone, not to mention calls to be returned and emails to answer. Where did the hours go? I did a time-audit and here’s what I found…”
Poor, Poor Press Release
“Then there are those other poor souls who still haven’t figured it out. They write the informationless press releases, the superfluous ones, the jargon saturated ones, and the self-important ones. Then there’s an entirely different genre: the press release that makes absolutely no sense.”
Videoconference at 35,000 Feet
“In what might have been the first in-air commercial videoconference, Apple product manager Kurt Knight, on the ground in Cupertino, hooked up over iChat AV with product line manager Eric Zelenka, returning to San Francisco from Munich, by leveraging Lufthansaís new wireless high-speed broadband connection service.”
CEO Succession 2003: The Perils of “Good” Governance
“…companies are dumping CEOs faster than they can replace them with qualified internal candidates, and thus are turning increasingly to outsiders. But our data shows that outsiders deliver significantly lower shareholder returns than insiders do over the course of their tenure.”
When Think Tanks Attack
“Why are all these think tanks so down on Open Source? Well, the Small Business Survival Committee is concerned that using open source will expose small business to the risk of lawsuits. Citizens Against Government Waste is concerned that the Government might waste money on Open Source. Defenders of Property Rights is concerned that Open Source might be a threat to intellectual property rights. However, I was able to detect a common theme to all their criticism. They all seem to be funded by Microsoft.”
Gate 3 WorkClub
“It’s a collection of all the services you ever imagined to make your life easier ó professional administrative assistance, computer support, marketing, business services, training, coaching, and more. It’s a beautiful environment to work in, custom designed with a diverse variety of spaces to fit almost every work-style and preference… At the heart of the WorkClub is a vision of a new kind of place that blends the comforts of home with the professionalism of an office, with attention to every detail and an eye for the magical.”
The Art of Customer Communications
“As businesses in industries such as the credit card and wireless markets continue to see their products and services become commoditized, the mitigating factor in achieving profitably is increasingly becoming customer service.”
RECENT WORK
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- 37 Pithy Insights From Street-Smart Entrepreneurs
- New video: ‘Imagine Leadership,’ by XPLANE & HBS’s Nitin Nohria
- Why Business Plans Don’t Deliver
- Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.
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