Archive for the Corporate America Category

Omnishambles

The Oxford English Dictionary set a new standard for yearly awards by naming “omnishambles“–defined as “a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations“–the 2012 Word of the Year by the BBC. Last Tuesday, Mitt Romney was so convinced the national election […]

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Let’s rebuild our businesses through the sincere efforts of the committed professionalism of top performers…

With Kirk and many like him still very much in my face and on my mind, I was thrilled to run into the Anti-Kirk the other day. The timing couldn’t have been any better because focusing our attention on professionals that are part of the proverbial solution, […]

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Who would have guessed: August — a prime time for engineering high rates of sustainable growth.

Although I’ve always been told that not much business gets transacted mid-late August because everyone is on vacation, I’ve always found August to be a particularly productive month. Not only has August 2009 not been an exception, my experiences this month tell me that there’s heightened focus […]

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