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Category: Management
What’s your Company’s Arrogance Quotient?
I don’t know anybody who likes being called arrogant. Yet, recently, it happened to me. And I found myself experiencing four parts of Kübler-Ross’s stages of death: Denial—“Surely they’re not talking about me…” Anger—“I am NOT!” Depression—“I can’t bear to…
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It’s a cliche because it’s true
With freshman about to go off to college, and parents getting kids ready for back to school, we’re all busy thinking about learning and what’s next. Conjure up those images of yourself in your college days—at the library poring over…
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Setting the Pace
It’s summer, it’s sunny, and the year is half way over.
Let’s take a pulse for where we are. Have you accomplished what you set out to do this year? Have you and your team got the attitude of champions? Are you thinking ahead about the next opportunities and challenges? Is the year going to be unbelievable?
I hope you can give the answer “YES!” to all of the above.
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Farewell Ignorance?!
I’m fascinated by people. And when they see this, they respond. People then share their scariest, greatest, weirdest, and—certainly, their most honest moments. Not that they set out to be revealing per se, but because they seek someone interested and…
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Not all Business Books are Created Equal
Quick, what’s the difference between a book and a doorstop? The answer: nothing, if the book’s not well-written. Here’s a list of ten books that have changed the way I think. I consider them must-reads for 2007. These are whack-on-the-side-of-the-head…
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Good Profits vs. Bad Profits: What You Need to Know As You Grow
“Good” profits are like compound interest or a snowball rolling down a hill. “Bad” profits are like eating your seed corn or spending endowment capital: the results are not immediately apparent, but over time it is an unsustainable situation. For…
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Insights on Corporate Blogging
Robert Scoble, former lead blogger at Microsoft, was interviewed recently by Ziff-Davis. Some key points: Some corporations are using blogs for internal communication by senior managers. This is an alternative to e-mail, allowing employees to ask questions and also making…
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Cluetrain 2007: Ten Commandments for Communicating with People Online
Seven years ago, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger posted an online document called the Cluetrain Manifesto. It laid out 95 principles for communicating with customers online. The Manifesto created big stir, was signed by a lot…
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Understanding the full impact of the web
This will probably sound crazy, but despite all the hype about Web 2.0 and web startups, the most common mistake we see tech companies making with regard to the web is underestimating its long-term impact on their businesses. I’m not…
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The Valley depends on your Innovation!
Fred Smith. Know his name? Likely not, but he’s the founder and CEO of FedEx. The innovator who changed the concept of package delivery in our lifetime. When he came up with the idea of FedEx, he “borrowed” it from a different industry. Since telecommunications and banking both applied a hub and spoke system of dissemination, he thought that could be applied to delivery services to increase speed and efficiency and enable a new business concept. And you know what his undergraduate professor thought of this “innovation? ” Not much. He got a “C” and a bad peer review.
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The Rise of Product Management
We’re seeing a rising tide of interest in the art and science of product management. The product manager is the person who translates customer requirements into product features at the start of a development process, and who translates the features…
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What’s the Big Idea?
Greatness in leadership is often associated with being the “big idea” person. When most of us think “Big Idea,” we think of technology pioneers like Steve Jobs (personal computers), Jeff Hawkins (PDAs). Heck we might think of Ben Franklin (electricity!)…
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If You Had to Double Your Business Next Year, What Would You Do?
5 Tips for Building Bigger, Better Results With 2006 quickly approaching, many companies are in the midst of thinking about “what’s next.” Whether it’s new customer acquisition plans, or accelerating profits, or displacing an emerging competitor, the pace and magnitude…
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Raising Entrepreneurs
An article in the December 2005, Inc Magazine talked about how to raise entrepreneurs. Here are a few great ideas that can be applied to kids or ourselves. Don’t compete, create. Teaching kids to rate themselves against others doesn’t create…
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How to Add [more] Value as a Remarkable Executive!
Nilofer Merchant to Speak to Silicon Valley Women in Business How do you become a world-class executive? You’re a proven business leader, with respected subject matter expertise. But are you viewed as a key executive to the organization? Does your…
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Value Innovation: Tools for Meeting & Exceeding Investor Expectations
Does your company need to win new markets in order to keep up with, or more importantly, exceed investor expectations? Will you be able to get there by evolving your products or solutions, or will it require disruptive innovation? Does…
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SoftSummit Selects Rubicon as Key Panel Speaker
We are pleased to inform you that Nilofer Merchant has been selected to be a part of the Software Executive Panel at SoftSummit 2005. As you may be aware, over 700 executives from leading software vendors and enterprises, along with…
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