I've been paying close attention to what is happening in Africa. Partially it's because, among other things, I'm Regional Manager Africa for the Wharton Global Consulting Practicum, but mostly it's because I've been fascinated by seeing the varying ways heads of state have reacted to what's going on.
In some...
One of the topics that has made the rounds of The Wharton School where I sometimes sit...and in academia in general...is grade inflation. This is the situation best defined by Garrison Keillor of A Prairie Home Companion when he regularly mentions how "all the children are above average".
Garrison Keillor
Astute readers that...
For some reason we are always fighting the last war. It's as though our eyes were in the back of our heads. It reminds me of how on many commuter trains there are always seats facing backwards...and people gazing at where they've been rather than watching where they're going.
Many managers...
A few days ago I sent off a tweet referencing a wonderful article in the Financial Times. Noriko Hama did an excellent job discussing the leadership failures in the current crisis in Japan in "Japan's nuclear policies: gutsy but witless".
This led to an email response from Dr David FitzGerald,...
Last Friday I began the process of installing EOS...Entrepreneurial Operating System...in a new client. This is an extraordinary way of running your business that follows my thinking about how all you need to run a successful business is to know, be passionate about, and follow your story...and, of course, to guide...
Quite a few major things are going on around the world right now. There's the disaster in Japan from the earthquake and tsunami that as I write this threatens a nuclear reactor with meltdown...or maybe two or three reactor meltdowns. A collection of countries in North Africa and the Middle...
Last week I visited Africa...Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa in six days. I suppose it's why my last post was Pay Attention...and Travel. And why I'm exhausted. I was visiting people to line up projects for the Wharton Global Consulting Practicum part of my life.
It is an exercise in...
As you probably guessed from the tag line in the header of this blog...at least if you get it as a web page, and if not, look here...I am extremely interested in the ideas around attention. I'm even writing a book that might have the tag line as its title: ...