I wrote a rant to post this week. Then Dennis reposted a BizCat article I wrote six months ago where I was genuinely asking what we might start doing about the “Problems of the World.” It was written by my less-cynical self, who grabbed my grumpy-old-man self-by the proverbial lapels, shook me, and said “Dude, […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" The times they are a-changinu2019 n My father and mother were born in 1904 and 1908 respectively. In 1988 I interviewed them with a cassette recorder and I just found the tape. I had to scramble to find an old Walkman to listen to it. It was strange to hear their voices […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" First independent project interviews n u201cI told u2019im u2018You know, Bob, youu2019re not the only one with an engineering degree!u2019 u2018Nu2019 thenu00a0 he said, u2018Oh, thatu2019s right, Paulee, I forgot, you got a diploma from Steveu2019s college in New Jersey!u2019 Everybody laughed ou2019course, but I never forgot that. I mean, Stevens Tech […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" n n I already wrote about my strange obsession with the Celts, a European Bronze Age and Iron Age people u00a0dominant between 700 BCE and 77 CE. In 51 CE, Julius Caesar u201cpacifiedu201d Gaul. The first slaughter of druids on Anglesey (Mona) in Wales the home of the last druid u201ccollege,u201d came […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Will, Marne, and Surance n When William Wehn was younger he left his parents farm. Will was the third son and knew his brothers would inherit the small family plot. William travelled, working where he could, mucking out some farmers barn, helping bind and thresh wheat from anotheru2019s field. n Will was […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" The first math problem. n My parents were married for sixty-seven years. They got married in the depths of the Great Depression, which I always thought was the heights of optimism. n They were very different people. Dad was an extravert; my mother described him as u201cterminally gregarious – not that heu2019ll […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" This way, follow me n Those who know my writing know that I frequently boil down leadership to actions in an abnormal environment like war, or emergencies or change. In such an environment a leader has two accountabilities, provide direction and attract followers. I use this conceptual reduction to differentiate leaders from […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" The Firm Off-Site n I think it was at the end of our first year, a new start-up consultancy with one u201dfamousu201d founder and his two founding partners, and by this point twenty people total. Weu2019d had a good year; some very large clients had hired us and weu2019d hired many impressive […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Celt-crazy after all these years n Iu2019m not sure when I became fascinated by the Celts, the Bronze and Iron Age people, who fought Julius Caesar as the Gauls. I know I was young, teen or preteen. I grew up in a Boston suburb and suddenly Celtic didnu2019t just describe the hometown […]
<div class="et_pb_text_inner" data-et-multi-view="{"schema":{"content":{"desktop":" Seventy percent of mergersu00a0fail* to create value that is greater than the sum of the parts. n So how do you know if your merger is failing while there is still time to do something about it? n Watch for these signs: n The Goat Rodeo: A lack of executive alignment n […]
