Archive for the business development Category

Lululemon: Accountable When Others Are Not

Original Article featured on CNBC.com – June 11, 2013 Whether one believes Christine Day resigned as Lululemon’s CEO or was pushed out after her five-and-a-half year tenure, she is leaving not only at the right time but in the manner a true leader should. Shortly after the announcement three months […]

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Corporate Mediocrity Can’t Be The “New Normal”

At a time when great companies like Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, and IBM (among others) are working through serious issues, vigorous efforts to eliminate behaviors that institutionalize mediocrity must be a top priority.  I have found that a key to understanding and then, changing, a culture is carefully listening to how employees speak. Business-speak […]

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How the NFL IS America’s Business

If Corporate America was covered like sports, then annual budget sessions would get the same kind of around the clock coverage  this (past) weekend’s NFL Draft did. Congratulations to Roger Goodell and the NFL for turning its annual player draft into a mini-version of the Super Bowl […]

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