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I am breaking my own rule: I hate litmus tests, as they assume nothing else matters. Alas, life might be easier if it were more

I had a meeting with a client the other day, a seasoned, accomplished exec who drew the distinction between the view of newly minted graduates

Buried in today’s New York Times is a story titled BP and Minerals Agency Faulted in Gulf Spill. Why shouldn’t it be buried? Is there any news here?

On Monday, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg appointed a new schools Chancellor, Cathie Black, describing her as a “superstar manager who has succeeded spectacularly”. Sounds like

I had an unexpected conversation over dinner on Friday night.  A close friend went on a lengthy rant about meteorologists. “Name one other job in

My wife has a car that she says is stealth. It’s not good enough to stand out, it’s not bad enough to stand out. People

“I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (‘hard-core pornography’). But I know

The economy is anemic (at best), and there is a lot of talk about job creation.  How could something that EVERYONE is for be so

Sorry that I have been offline for so long… summer is just too much fun. There are so many items that we have to address

“You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what

In my last blog about the importance of management systems, I wrote about the system being the solution. Ignoring that the cliché will often induce a

If you want to be good at managing, then have a good management system. ‘The System.’  Talk about a cliché!! People throw around the term

Dear Chief Executive, Management is my passion, and it is through that architecture that we deliver functions as services.  My favorite service is information technology. 

Now that sounds ominous, almost dangerous, or even illegal.  But it could be one of the most important things you could do to improve your

If there is one recurring complaint (maybe even a whine) that has come out of the Wall Street crisis, it is that the largest banks

“The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.”                                     — Carrie Fischer, Star Wars, 1977 One of the

Do you have a VoIP phone (Voice over Internet Protocol, in case you asked) at home or work?  They’ve become excellent, feature rich, and great