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Datafication– Reflects the Past and Drives the Future: A Revolution That is Changing How We Live, Work, Think…
Datafication is the transformation of our entire world into oceans of data that can be explored– and providing a new perspective on reality. Datafication takes all aspects of life, and transforms it into a data format that makes it quantified; for … Continue reading
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Winners–Losers: It’s All About Having Real Grit, Superior Passion vs. Just Let It Happen– Don’t Get Bitter, Get Better
Winners–Losers: Passion and perseverance may be more important to success (i.e., winners), than mere talent. In a world of instant gratification, ‘grit’ may yield the biggest payoff of all. Grit is defined as ‘perseverance and passion for long-term goals’, and it … Continue reading
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The Changing Nature of Leadership– The Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Shifting Perspectives on Leadership.
Leadership: What is it? What an obvious question! It may be interesting to note; that there is absolutely no consensus, among the experts, on the definition of ‘leadership’– despite how much it has been studied and written about. According to Warren … Continue reading
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Raise the Bar, Push Harder, Dig Deeper: Meaningful Change–Set High Expectation, Praise Results, Recognize Achievement
Raise the Bar: Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation ~Jack Nicklaus Raise the Bar is a common business cliché that refers to setting a higher standard… It means never accept ordinary or the … Continue reading
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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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Zombie Companies– Barely Alive, Living Corpse, Walking Dead: Clinging-Financially Undead, Waiting For Creative Destruction.
Zombie companies… it’s inevitable and necessary to allow the failure of some non-competitive companies, so as to release the capital and labor for more promising companies ~Winnie Wu Zombie companies are neither dead or alive… they have so much debt … Continue reading
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Buying Facebook Fake Friends, Twitter Bogus Followers: Big Business of Buying Social Media Metrics– Do They Add Value…
Buying fake Facebook friends, bogus Twitter followers, false LinkedIn connections… they don’t contribute anything… they don’t add value… but, increases social media metrics, if that’s important to you… Buying Facebook fake friends, Twitter bogus followers… and other social networking site … Continue reading
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Tagged business, competition, google, linkedin, organization, social media, strategy, twitter
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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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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
Psychology of Gridlock, Stalemate, Deadlock..: Pernicious Cause of Failure or Benign Necessity for Success…
Gridlock is not a product of divided government, party politics, or any of the usual scapegoats. Instead, it’s an instrumental part of government– built into institutions and sustained by leaders acting not only to achieve set goals but to … Continue reading
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