The publishers will blame everyone in sight for their predicament, but this is a self-inflicted wound; what the Brits would call an "own goal."
One of the reasons why most "big ideas" go nowhere is because the idea originators do not have a team of collaborators on board to help develop and execute their ideas. Bottom line, it's easier to conceive than it is to deliver the baby.
Employees perform at different levels, when on different teams, in different situations with different people. Why do so many leaders spend so little time looking for synergies on their teams and so much time looking at individual performance?
Why am I so optimistic? Because of the wide assortment of technologies that are advancing at exponential rates and converging. They are enabling small teams to do what was once only possible for governments and large corporations.
Most people who know the term Bodhisattva define a Bodhisattva as an enlightened being. Wikipedia says, The term 'bodhisattva' was used by the Budd...
Synergy is not some magical device that causes extraordinary results when people work together. It is behavior of whole systems that cannot be predicted by behavior of the individual parts of that system when observed separately.
Stepping into the offices of Brand Synergy Group in the heart of Union Square in NYC feels a lot like arriving at a Zen garden of uber-cool and fam...
Last week, in the aftermath of the No Labels debacle, I focused on the Diversity of Voices & Values, while standing to salute Tom Atlee's proposition ...
Would-be consultants, seekers of free services, and coat-tail-hangers; bad networkers in the consulting world are some of the most tiresome people on earth.
Many of us have heard about open government -- this is where government from all levels make their services available online. In addition to making...
Destruction is camouflaged in expressions like "Efficiencies" and "Synergies" and "Workforce Reductions," and the big one -- "Mergers" -- where companies get larger and smaller at the same time.
Kraft Foods seeming obsession with building a "global powerhouse" as a sound reason to merge with Cadbury's provides a telling glimpse into the future...
Obama has responded to questions about selecting older, experienced team members when he was the candidate of change by saying that he will gather input from his team.
