Results, Automagically We can be surprised only so much to find out that encyclopedias of everything seem now to be available. Our common experience of using web search engines easily lands us on subjects and facts that we neither already knew about ourselves nor were going to create. Even further, discovering the…

How a venerable arts organization self-destructed under the misguidance of ambition, faux leadership, and social media’s culture. — Introduction Organizations are needed solely for one reason: to accomplish something that cannot be reliably accomplished without being an organization. Community, culture and leadership cannot survive independently in a functional and coherent business architecture of a non-profit organization.

How a venerable arts organization self-destructed under the misguidance of ambition, faux leadership, and social media’s culture. — Introduction Organizations are needed solely for one reason: to accomplish something that cannot be reliably accomplished without being an organization. Community, culture and leadership cannot survive independently in a functional and coherent business architecture of a non-profit organization.

Metrics are a language, and they usually follow words used to state what someone cares about. But the trip from words to metrics is tricky, because metrics are sexy — and risky. …

This compilation of notes is either about the social behavior of influencers or the influence of social behaviors. More likely it is about both. But specifically it is about how certain parties choose not to LEAD and instead choose, as followers, to PRESSURE. I’m assuming myself that there is a…

This article’s title is taken from the linked document further below. While the title names the topic, the real subject is a distillation of language used to describe the scope and configuration of change managed at the enterprise level. …

What are you so mad around? Don’t worry… your surgeon knows a lot around your heart He just had no idea what I was talking around. It’s around time you showed up. People just don’t really think around those things anymore. Strategy is all around advantage. If you actually cared…

Being able to dispose of dozens of hard copy publications about strategy is not just being “green” (although I like the double entendre of green being either wise or naive). …

THE INS AND OUTS We usually say that something “has” value or “is valuable” for a pretty straightforward reason: we expect (anticipate, believe) that the “something” will influence an increase of the probability of an intended outcome’s occurrence. …