Archive for the business leadership Category

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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Lessons Learned By Media Coverage of Boston Marathon Bombing

Original Article featured in Huffington Post – April 25, 2013 They say the first casualty in the heat of a moment is truth. The recent media coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing offers invaluable material and lessons for any business executive to apply in any industry to validate that […]

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