It seems lately that I am writing about things I have heard famous people say. I’m not sure I sure I know why. Perhaps I have been in sponge mode unconsciously looking for ideas. Perhaps ideas I’ve heard have had a certain cache that caught my attention. In any case I was listening to Andrew Ross Sorkin the author of Too Big to Fail at a lecture in my local library Friday night. He was
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On Sunday Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers was on Fareed Zakaria talking about the growing inequality of wealth in the United States. The U.S. is about to have the same inequality as Venezuela. He referred to the researched premise of the dean of the business school at the University of Toronto, Roger Martin, that the shift in power from capital to talent is a major reason. In the 1950’s CEO’s did not receive millions of
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[buzz]Well it just seems that life has taken over and I find that I haven’t posted since August. I’m wondering how many other Americans put thinking about the future on hold while taking care of everyday life. I know if you are like me you have had a pile of everyday life to sort and manage. Tuesday is the election and it looks like we will get a mixed bag in a time when we
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Leaders must maintain balance between the minutia of life that threatens to overwhelm us all and keeping the big picture in mind. So how do the best leaders do it? It is too easy in today’s world to get caught up managing the crisis and problems, doing the personal administrative work that companies used to do for us or becoming the expert on computers, health care, cell phones, insurance and so on necessary for survival
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