Articles about general management, leadership and strategy issues.
On the surface of it, it seems rather ridiculous for so much time, energy and attention to be dedicated to a series of football (soccer) matches. After all, it’s just a game. It’s not like these are brain surgeons or great statesmen or even great …
9 July — UPDATE — I’ve just been invited to turn this into an op-ed piece for the next issue of IABC’s CW Bulletin. Your comments will help improve the final version! Two weeks ago, while floating around Amsterdam on a sightseeing tour during th…
Cobbler’s shoes? I’ve spent a lot of time the past few weeks communicating from conference halls in North America and Europe at events by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and Orange Business Services. Overall Orange B…
Many top-level business communicators delegate mastery of communication technologies to junior digital natives and IT managers. “I don’t have time” is their common mantra. They believe their strategy-level work is too important to bother with the …
If you ask people what strategic planning entails, you will probably get a list that looks something like this: Define your mission, vision, goals and measurable objectives Conduct environmental scanning/a situation analysis Formulate a strategy t…
Looking at the things I work on, the things I read, the things that attract my attention and generally the things that interest me, interconnectedness comes across as a major theme. What at first looks a chaotic mass of unrelated topics actually t…
In what may actually be an understatement, Olaf Storbeck qualifies a new paper from John Joseph Wallis called “Did the New Deal Save Democracy and Capitalism” as having “stunning implications for economic policy.” I would go even further. Wallis m…
When Facebook recently offered me the chance to link my schools and company to pages about those topics, I thought it was a good idea. What took me by surprise was the fact that Facebook decided what those pages should be, and I had no way to infl…
We have all seen the pride on the face of a small child who has just learned how to write his or her own name. The sense of accomplishment is palpable. It is also an important step forward in the development of the self. Being able to write your n…
These great words of wisdom from Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-hour Workweek, struck a chord with me. I’ve been doing issues management and stakeholder relations for over a decade, and I’ve noticed that organizations too often get distracted by wan…
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