As Hoftede would tell you, certain countries have huge power distance. For example, in all the orange shaded countries you don't argue with the boss , the boss is always right and you show deference. It was that in the US you could speak up to the boss but that has changed since the economyContinue reading “Leaders must be open to input: deference defeats innovation in organizations”
Category Archives: Leadership and Management
So much data and so little insight
Given the enormous amount of domain knowledge that exists in both theory and practice , its sort of amazing that organizations are getting carried away with the sexiness of big data as Jim Goodnight of SAS mentions. You would wonder why all this analysis still leads to the mortgage mess, and debt crisis across manyContinue reading “So much data and so little insight”
Directors want to spend more time on strategy, risk and talent says McKinsey Global Study
The Board of Directors of surveyed companies by McKinsey want to spend more time on Strategy,Risk and Talent than they are doing. According to the McKinsey study the the time spent on these things have not gone up since the economic crisis. So where is the problem? Most times the Board of Directors just goContinue reading “Directors want to spend more time on strategy, risk and talent says McKinsey Global Study”
Netflix to stream movies in all global markets, cut out postal services – grow movie industry
Netflix used the US Post to famously distribute movies in America after the founder Reed Hastings was charged late fees for late return of a rental movie to a movie rental store. Netflix involves a monthly subscription of under $10 and you can take as many movies you want, just use US Post and theContinue reading “Netflix to stream movies in all global markets, cut out postal services – grow movie industry”
Dealing with nuclear power risks
http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt_2_65.swf The Los Alamos wildfare is making headlines as concerns rise about damage to the nuclear lab. Wildfires are more predictable (brush,dry,summer) than earthquakes as in Fukushima,Japan.The question that the rest of the world is asking is if Americans and Japanese are scrambling to deal with natural disasters and nuclerar installations then what aboutContinue reading “Dealing with nuclear power risks”
Leadership is futile if you are not willing to manage for outcomes
This blog always had a combined section on Leadership and Management and I am glad that it did when I read True Leaders Are Also Managers by Robert Sutton. For some reason leadership is equated to a grand "vision" of "doing the right thing" and management is seen as the more mundane "trenches" where implementationContinue reading “Leadership is futile if you are not willing to manage for outcomes”
US Jobs McKinsey : more management work from “soup to nuts” ?
More management work from soup to nuts even- if you know only soup making best- seems to be the signal from the US job market. For example, companies are not willing to pay separately for project management when they outsource IT and similarly in-house the workfrorce from R&D to Marketing and Sales,Supply Chain and EngineeringContinue reading “US Jobs McKinsey : more management work from “soup to nuts” ?”
Dealing with your internal organization takes too much time and energy for B2B marketers and Supply Chain Managers
Just dealing with internal folks, including your boss, takes up a whole lot of time and energy for B2B marketers and Supply Chain managers. Being folks that are at the boundary of the organization and facing outside you should be spending between 70-80% of your time with the customers or thinking about how toContinue reading “Dealing with your internal organization takes too much time and energy for B2B marketers and Supply Chain Managers”
Congratulations to Big Blue IBM for 100 years of constantly reinventing itself
At a time when American businesses feel vulnerable its time to reflect on some personal recollections about IBM over the years, some of which are being recounted fondly today, 100 years of IBM. A culture that is shared and if you don't join in as an employee you are ejected pretty early . Sounds toughContinue reading “Congratulations to Big Blue IBM for 100 years of constantly reinventing itself”
US Innovation: A High-Tech small sector led growth is the answer ?
Where can US Innovation lead to jobs is a question on everyone's minds. A clue is from today's stock rally, spurred in part by the Fusion-io IPO, after six days of stock market losses. Fusion-io makes flash memory storage and its largest customer is Facebook who use their infrastructure to manage all those millions ofContinue reading “US Innovation: A High-Tech small sector led growth is the answer ?”