We had an interesting week. Most of us had our “heads down” …working with great focus to meet deadlines; moving fast—yet in a managed way. We’ve made some great inroads! But we’ve faced many distractions as well; the toughest...
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You may have some idea how much I hate missing a deadline. Well, I just missed mine; I didn’t send out the Wow! this weekend. The good news is that it is not because there are no Wows! to...
Last week I focused on s-p-e-e-d. This week is about another driver of our success: smart use of TIME! … that is your time and others’ time. On the subject of time management, this week’s “Wow!” goes to ———-....
This week we made great headway in our efforts to become more visible to, and engaging of, our customers. And I can already feel that we are doing this with greater s-p-e-e-d than before. So on that note, this...
As I work with companies on Abrige performance improvement, risk management engagements… and as I am now (over the past 10 months, actually) studying the bootstrapping, high profits information marketers… I keep reading, and saying, the word “engagement.” We...
This week I am honoring a person that continues to wow me with his focus and effort. We are going through transition—mostly growing pains—and with this comes the need for a ready, capable and trustworthy pool of resources; good...
Are performance management systems—CPM, EPM, BI, BPM, Balanced Scorecard, Dashboards, etc.—failing? I’ve been saying this for quite some time, and I’m now hearing it from others as well. It feels ok to be somewhat vindicated in my opinion. I’d...
To all: We continue to move through quick changes in our team. You are not seeing all the changes, since you cannot see the bcc list for this email—I do. And I have mixed feelings about it. Mostly, it...
The recent global upheaval has brought down some iconic companies, and in some cases it is obvious why these leaders failed. But in most cases it is not that clear how exactly that leader failed, when we reconsider by...
We had an unexpected change this week so rather than being in Texas today, I am here… It is good to remember that “Everything in life happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves us.” Now I...