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Paul Smith is a keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and author of Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives that Captivate, Convince, and Inspire (AMACOM August, 2012). Whether it’s the CEO’s speech to the board of directors, or…
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Here is a brief excerpt from a recent article by Scott Weiss, one of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking thinkers in the business world. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * “There…
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The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica Viking Adult (2009) What we can accomplish when “drawn effortlessly into the heart of the Element” Why did Ken Robinson write this book? He explains in his…
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I urge you to click on this link so that you can watch a TED video during which Sir Ken Robinson explains how schools today are “killing” creativity in their students. It soon becomes obvious that he is a highly…
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“The best vitamin for a Christian is B1” “Under same management for over 2000 years” “Soul food served here” “Beat the Christmas rush, come to church this Sunday!” “Don’t wait for the hearse to take you to church” “Don’t…
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Creating the Strategy: Winning and Keeping Customers in B2B Markets Rennie Gould KoganPage (2012) How to achieve the #1 objective in customer relations I wish I had a dollar for every time I have encountered someone insisting that, in customer…
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The annual Army-Navy football game was played last Saturday. There are so many interesting stories associated with this game since it was first played in 1890 at West Point, New York. The U.S. Naval Academy prevailed then, 24-20, and did…
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Here is a brief blog post with a link to the complete article to which Sir Richard Branson refers. If there were a Rushmorean monument for entrepreneurs, he would undoubtably be among the four selected. Frankly, the older I get,…
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Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired Company Really Works Adam Lashinsky BusinessPlus (2012) Why and how a “productive narcissist” created a “giant jumble of contradictions and paradoxes” If for whatever reasons you have not as yet — and will not…
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Always Question Assumptions about Talent
Should your talent management systems attract, retain and develop the elite few or focus on improving median performers? That is a question to which John Boudreau responds in an article written for Talent Management magazine. Here is a brief excerpt.…
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