Campbell Soup Company was having its troubles when Douglas Conant was hired as CEO in 2001. I know several people who were and are Campbell Soup senior executives although I have never had the pleasure of meeting Conant himself. But I have watched and heard the story of how...
When faced with obstacles the brain becomes more creative. We all know this. One manifestation is how much more difficult it is to write an excellent brief essay than it is to ramble on page after page. It takes significantly more intense thought and creativity to tease out the...
When Jim Yong Kim was appointed President World Bank some months ago quite a few people where aghast. After all, Kim is a doctor, not a banker. Previously Kim led the World Health Organization and was President of Dartmouth College, hardly the background many expected for the leader of...
A number of people commented (not as comments on the blog although you are welcome to actually post those emails) that my last post was Speak Memorably while the one before that was Management Success: Ask...and Listen. I must admit that this was just a random event unless it was...
I seem to wind up with quite a few people people talking to me. Politicians seeking my vote, executives sharing their thoughts, con men trying to sell me something, famous people discussing their success, and regular people doing presentations on no end of topics for often obscure reasons. And then there...
Management books are filled with information about managing people. Experts of all types are available to help you learn how to improve your management skills. Seminars abound on the techniques for becoming a better boss. You can spend a lot of time and a small fortune on such things.
And...
If you are anyone who manages others, works with others, talks to others, or just happens to run into other people, you've noticed that they have different beliefs that guide them. The great difficulty most people have is understanding what this means and how it guides their thoughts and...
This arrives the morning of Election Day in the USA. It has been a depressing experience watching an unending stream of misstatements, pandering, factual inaccuracies, billionaires hoping to buy the election, officials working to disenfranchise voters, hate filled verbiage, and outright lies...often continuing to be repeated even after the...