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Stupidity Defense– Incompetence, Misunderstanding, Trickery– Malice: Ascribe to Hanlon’s Razor, Occam’s Razor, Grey’s Law
Hanlon’s Razor: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe. ~Albert Einstein. — Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. ~Napoleon Bonaparte. Hanlon’s Razor is an eponymous … Continue reading
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Tagged business, executives, Grey’s Razor, Hanlon’s Razor, ignorance, incompetence, malice, management, misunderstanding, Occam’s Razor, organization, stupid, stupidity
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Managing: New Face of Management–Leadership in the Digital Age: Dawning of Peter Drucker’s– Managing in the Next Society
Managing in the digital age: Times are changing and leaders must have a clear sense of mission about where they want to take the organization and the results they want to achieve… They cannot do it alone; they must do … Continue reading
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Tagged business, digital age, digital economy, executives, leader, leadership, manage, management, managing, managing in the digital age, organization, peter drucker
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Organization’s Performance Indicators– Leading, Lagging..: Foresight-Key Drivers and Hindsight-Outcome Measures
Performance indicators: Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. ~Albert Einstein… What gets measured gets managed. ~Peter Drucker Performance Indicators are a small number of agreed-upon measurements that reflect your organization’s … Continue reading
Leader, Power, Treachery, Greed– Machiavellian: Precepts for Success in Business, Government… Game Changing?
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Beware of modern-day Machiavelli! We all know them– sly ones, cunning, manipulative… Modern workplaces provide a wealth of opportunities for the … Continue reading
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Leadership is Value Creation — Value Creation is Leadership: Connecting; Ideas, People, Passion, Results– Maker vs. Taker
The role of leadership in business is value creation for all stakeholders– customers, employees, investors… as well as, recognizing that the interests of these groups are inextricably linked… Leadership is value creation and value creation is leadership– they are inseparable, … Continue reading
Stay Ahead of the Curve– Shape the Future of Your Business..: Convergence of Visionary Ideas and Creative Discomfort
Stay ahead of the curve: When playing by the rules– one does the best they can; whereas when making the rules– one stays ahead of the curve… or game, or pack… and, others do the best they can… There’s a saying: … Continue reading
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The Progress Trap– Creating, Escaping, Adapting, Solving..: Business Blunders and Unintended Consequences
Progress Trap: The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~George Bernard Shaw Progress trap is when human ingenuity, … Continue reading
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Confronting the Icarus Paradox– Dark Side Of Success and Perils of Excellence: Why Successful Companies Fail
Icarus Paradox: Successful firms can fail to take full advantage of success. Instead, they often consume their resources through a stream of questionable decisions. ~Fredrickson The Icarus Paradox is the observed phenomenon of businesses that fail abruptly after a period … Continue reading
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Distorted-Face of Narcissistic Leadership– Quintessential Pro, Desperate Con: Jekyll-Hyde Behavior of Narcissism
One of Steve Jobs’ great accomplishment; putting his– petulance, narcissism, rudeness, idiosyncrasies… in the service of perfection. ~Malcolm Gladwell When you say; he/she is a ‘narcissist’- just what does that mean? People throw around the terms– narcissist, narcissism and many … Continue reading
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