While you may or may not agree with the politics, the rollout of this critical initiative has clearly been a train wreck – and the Procurement process that the government uses is being pointed to as one of the main reasons. While I would agree, I would also…
Since this is the beginning of a long holiday weekend, we thought we would delay our really serious blog post that we had planned and send you something humorous. We hope you have a safe holiday weekend with friends and loved…
Earlier this week I was saw this post in The Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review: Encourage Your Team to Challenge You “We’re all drawn to people who repeat back to us what we already believe. But dissent, not consensus, leads to smarter decisions. Still,…
I was invited (thanks to John Caltagirone – Director of the SVC) to the 2nd Annual Chicago Supply Chain Summit at Loyola University’s Quinlan School of Business which was sponsored by their Supply and Value Chain Center (“SVC”). Unfortunately I was only able to attend part of the…
If you are involved in introducing any kind of “change”, “innovation”, process, technology etc., you may want to spend some time at your local zoo – at the chimpanzee exhibit. In fact, you may want to take your team there for a field trip – if nothing else; it will be a good bonding experience. You may be wary of me sending you to the animal kingdom one more time (bees) but bear (no pun intended) with me. If you were to go by the ten month study being conducted at the Lincoln Park Zoo, your team may actually learn some critical lessons about the spread of innovation.
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