September 15th, 2006 | 
I believe that the ability to present well in front of a group of people is one of the key requirements of true leadership. It’s also a skill that few have mastered. For some, it’s because they just don’t get the nuts and bolts of how to present ideas and information. For others, it’s [...]
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Lisa Haneberg has a great post on her Management Craft blog titled, Katie Couric’s Attention. It points out the massive effort that CBS has put behind making Katie Couric’s start as anchor for the Evening News a successful one. Lisa asks the question: how much effort do each of us put into helping new leaders and managers of [...] [If you read the last post in this series, Focus, you may want to skip the next couple of introductory paragraphs and branch, jump or goto Indirect Approaches in boldface, below.] This is the fourth of a six-post series that discusses how, when, why and why not apply military strategy and tactics to business. [...] I’m a gadget junkie and I need a fix pretty frequently. Like most people, my dealer is the Internet which almost always helps me get the monkey off my back. For most items, I check PriceGrabber or Shopzilla, search for what I’m looking for and choose the best combination of price and vendor that I [...] This is the third of a six-post series that discusses how, when, why and why not apply military strategy and tactics to business. For the sake of some brevity, I won’t repeat my introduction to this topic but, if you’re interested, you can find it here in the preamble. There are also a few [...] In my last post, the first in a series on applying military strategy and tactics to business, I presented my thoughts about how difficult I believe it is to apply strategies gleaned from well-publicized military campaigns directly to business situations. Part of the problem is simply that the field of battle is very different from the [...] During the late 80s and early 90s, much of the predominant management philosophy involved directly applying classical military strategy to business. Sun Tsu was regularly quoted at Board meetings and on Wall Street and books like On War and Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun were among the most popular business books available. At the time, I wasn’t a [...] |
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