Articles about general management, leadership and strategy issues.
Most issues managers are fire fighters: they are constantly reacting to an ever-growing list of demands, incidents and outright crises. There are never sufficient resources, least of which time. Priorities vary from day to day, largely based on wh…
Sometimes someone says something that allows you to see an issue in a whole new light. I had one of those a-ha moments today when listening to a CW Radio interview with Pam Shockley-Zalabak about the book she has just co-written Building the High-…
There is a constant tension in any organization between the need to manage the whole and the need to break tasks down into digestable chunks. The way we handle an organization’s relationships is a clear example. We talk about the need to project a…
I’ve been experimenting with Posterous a bit recently and have decided to make it my flagship home on the web. I love the way it talks to all of my other personas (Twitter, Facebook, video- and photo-sharing sites, etc). And I like most of all tha…
My notes from a discussion between IABC France members and global IABC Chair Mark Schumann, ABC. We started by participants saying what they fear. Some answers: * Fragmentation* Noise * The digital divide * Not being able to keep up with the pace …
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