Well, it’s not really the Shanghai Auto Show. Officially, comrade, it’s the 12th International Automobile and Manufacturing Technology Exhibition. Insiders in the auto industry are predicting that this “car” show will be the biggest and most important in the world within 10 years. Why? Because by that time, China will likely surpass the US [...]
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This is the fourth and final post (for now) in my series on communicating with your board. You can find the previous posts here, here and here. As a corporate director, I wince when I get a board package that opens up with a stack of detailed group-level reports and loads of spreadsheets containing every [...]  May 16th, 2007 |  Tags: Communicating with Your Board | Category: Boards, Management, Startups |  Leave a comment My son and I went out to Phoenix to, among a few other things, spend a couple of days learning how to drive fast (and well) at the Bob Bondurant School for High Performance Driving. My son (almost 17) took the Advanced Teenage Driving course and I took the Z06 (Corvette) Experience course. Both [...] To try to get just a little more focused in this blog, I decided to start writing posts related to detailed cycling-specific stuff on my new blog on yourcycling.com. On that blog, I’ll be mostly writing equipment reviews, outlining details about some rides I’ve done and generally whining about how sucky my most recent [...] Matt over at his OnlyOnce blog has a great post up titled, It Never Goes Without Saying. Matt makes the case for why leaders and managers should take advantage of every opportunity to communicate messages, feedback, direction and vision. What constitutes an opportunity? Any event or “moment” as Matt calls them. The post discusses creating such [...] The title of this post is a quote from the latest entry on Will Price’s blog, Leaders as Weather Vanes. In his post, Will discusses a 1915 quote from the President of National City Bank of NY (Citibank), Charles Mitchell, that he read in the recent 70th anniversary edition of Forbes. Will goes on to [...] Last night, I attended the showing of ten of the films from the Boston version of the 48 Hour Film Project. If you’re not familiar with it (I wasn’t), the Project is a film competition held in, roughly, 30 cities around the world in which the contestant teams get the subject and genre for [...] As an individual contributor, it’s easy to focus. Other than being interrupted by your manager you, for the most part, control your time and what you are focused on at any given moment. Managers don’t have that luxury. Because the job of a manager is to orchestrate the activities, direction and goals of a [...] A couple of months ago, I traded in my Palm Treo 700W for a Samsung Blackjack and I’ve fallen so deeply in love I’m thinking of formalizing my bond with my new phone and, since I live in Massachusetts, I think it’s legal. The phone is small, relatively fast, has a great keyboard [...] This is the third post in my series on communicating with your board. You can find the previous posts here and here. Consolodating key financial information on a single page is a great tool for communicating some of the most important data about the company in a quickly-grasped snapshot. Because of this, it’s not only good [...] May 4th, 2007 | Tags: Communicating with Your Board | Category: Boards, Management, Startups | 4 comments |
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