Archive for Tactical Execution
Seven Strategies for Managing Workplace Internet Usage
As social media and personal email continue to be many individual’s primary forms of communications, it becomes harder to keep them focused at the workplace. An increase in usage of media-rich sites can place a considerable strain on limited bandwidth, which can hurt the performance of critical business tasks. The challenge is establishing a proper [...]
Read moreWhat Really is The Big Picture of Business
The biggest problem with business, in a one-sentence capsule, is: People exhibit misplaced priorities and impatience… seeking profit and power, possessing unrealistic views of purpose, and not fully willing to do the things necessary to sustain orderly growth and long-term success. What organizations and individuals started out to become and what we’ve evolved into being [...]
Read moreThe Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal
This is my own Big Picture full-scope analysis of the Enron debacle. It far transcends financial analysis made by other people.I have been carefully observing Enron with interest since 1984 and have seen the trouble coming for most of those years. The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the [...]
Read moreHow to Stress-Test Your Strategy
Robert Simons, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, explains why management teams must ask themselves tough strategy questions. During this interview, Robert covers: obstacles business leaders face when executing their business strategy why companies need to focus on one primary customer the importance in choosing which among shareholders, [...]
Read moreThe Big Picture of Business – Situations Causing the Downtown and Corporate Scandals: Barriers to Progress and Business Growth
Every business, company or organization goes through cycles in its evolution. At any point, each program or business unit is in a different phase from the others. Every astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business TreeTM and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations. It’s not [...]
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