Managing to the Metrics
Since my team runs the operational metrics for my organization, I’ve had some interesting conversations within my team and with some of my peers...
Category: Management 2.0
Management in a Facebook World
I’ve been reading Clay Shirky’s latest book Here Comes Everybody and thinking a lot about how organizations, and specifically the power base behind organizational...
Innovation Attracts A-Players
I was reading Auren Hoffman’s latest blog post on why finding A-players is harder in a down economy, and one point he makes really resonated with me…
SithSigma
I saw this site and laughed out loud. I especially loved the following: Sith Business Philosophy Work-Life Balance is a lie, there is only...
The Hawthorne Effect
After finishing Outliers, I quickly made my way through Managing the Gray Areas, by Jerry Manas, which was an excellent follow on to Gladwell’s...
The Capitalization Threshold
I am a huge fan of the various speaker events that come to Microsoft campus, and attend all that I can. When I...
IM Thoughts
Sometimes the most insightful conversations are captured via Live Messenger (or your favorite IM client), but rarely get folded into other blogging or web...
Kaizen, Nietzsche, and the Fly Lady
As I was driving into the office yesterday morning listening to local talk radio, the host mentioned ‘creative destruction’ in a segment on the...
Goodreads.com
"Christian, you should really check out this social network for avid readers. It’s called GoodReads.com" "I would never use it." "I think you’d find...
Steven Smith, co-author of Egonomics
Reprinting a post from the newly launched ChannelMEC site. As part of the Management Excellence Community (MEC) Speaker Series, about 25 MEC members were...
