You may think economics is beyond you. I know I thought that I really understood it but Economics turns out to have been the only subject that I nearly failed in grad school. Why? I still don’t have an answer to that question, but this video may help you understand economics in a new [...]

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A fellow consultant, Holger Nauheimer, asked this question on his Change Managment Blog a couple of months ago:  Will we still talk about Change Management, in 10 years? I had a lot of thoughts on the subject and my mind started to ramble  . . . and time passed but I did want to address [...]

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Wednesday April 22nd was Earth Day and to be honest, I didn’t do anything particular to celebrate or honour it. I was too busy blogging, driving kids from activities, fixing meals, doing laundry, changing light bulbs and arranging my next trip to Canada. So when this video crossed my desk this morning via Twitter, [...]

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I grew up in a time when children didn’t have to bring their candy home from Halloween and have it checked.  And while I was told not to talk to strangers or take candy from anyone, I was instructed to go to a policeman if I was in trouble.  So it is not surprising that [...]

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Just going live today, Barry Schwartz, on TED Talks, makes a passionate call for “practical wisdom” as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will helprebuild our world. You can view the 20 minute video below.
Barry Schwartz shows [...]

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I am being interviewed this evening by Kim Nishida and the information is below.  While this is very short notice, I hope to post the recording info here later.  Kim is a coach who works with service professionals who struggle with being their own boss.  Kim also runs a series of free teleclasses that I [...]

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The Financial Times/ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business Awards will take place at the Tate Modern gallery, London, on March 19 2009. The categories, which will be nominated by a panel of judges, are: Drivers for Change; Corporate Responsibility; Environment; Emerging Markets; Entrepeneurship and Lifetime Achievement.  A couple of things caught my eye besides the title which in [...]

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Here is the newly revised edition created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod; Globalization & The Information Age. It was adapted by Sony BMG at an executive meeting they held in Rome this year. Credits are also given to Scott McLeod, Jeff Brenman.

The original was posted in February of 2007 and has been viewed by [...]

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Roughly 1,090 SmartBrief on Leadership readers answered last week’s question: Considering the current economic climate, what is your company’s position on business travel?

We are cutting down on business travel across the board, except in situations of absolute necessity — 415 votes, 38.1% 
We are encouraging greater use of video/tele/Web conferencing as an acceptable substitute and a way [...]

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In their book, Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls  Tichy and Bennis identify the stages of the decision making process: sensing a need, getting it “framed and named,” mobilizing others, making a judgment and seeing the execution through.   Good judgment doesn’t just happen, says Noel Tichy, a business professor at the University of Michigan. “When we [...]

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