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“If you haven’t read the newspapers or had access to news through any medium lately, Bob Lutz, General Motors vice chairman and popular blogger has been busy lately. We greatly appreciate the time he took to answer a few email questions we recently asked.”
“Online personal journals (weblogs or ‘blogs’) are becoming more popular with small businesses that see them as an inexpensive marketing tool and a way to differentiate themselves from the competition.”
“The Idea: The New Economy will have an explosive need for critical entrepreneurial skills. Universities are not equipped or inclined to provide them. You can’t learn them just by reading a book. We need to create a whole new ‘channel’ for entrepreneurial education. Here’s how it might work.”
“The next time your boss complains you are not focused enough, blame it on email and phone calls. Even smoking dope has less effect on your ability to concentrate on the task in hand.”
“Great leadership is characterized by the desire and ability to grow the people around you. A great leader shifts his/her focus from delivering great results to developing others who can deliver great results. This is the only way that success is scalable and sustainable.”
“I’ve been using GTD principles for over three years now, mostly with good results. I believe the concepts are generally the best productivity approach for knowledge workers. There are times, however, when I think the model must be expanded to get the best results in a given situation.”
“If you are looking for a business school that teaches you how to think creatively, design new products and services, manage your innovations through a corporate bureaucracy, or present them to outside angel investors, Fontaine-bleau, France-based Insead, the leading European B-school, just outside Paris, may be just the place. Insead has joined with the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., to offer a joint program that teaches the role of creativity in business decisions, how innovation really works, and why design may be as important to corporate management today as Six Sigma was in the ’90s. A Swiss trustee who sits on both boards brought them together.”
Part 1 of 4: “The stuff coming up focuses upon three things. I kept it to three things because it’s often said that in any given line of business you only need to know three things. The trick is in knowing which three. I don’t know how true that is, but I’m running with it. The ‘three things’ in the business of managing your boss are: 1) Understanding Yourself; 2) Understanding The Boss; 3) Understanding The Relationship. Sounds simple, eh? Like I mentioned earlier, it’s highly compressed.”
“Warning signs that the company you just joined is in serious trouble.”
“Don’t worry about who your customer is. Make something he can ‘hire’ to do a job.”
