Now maybe the thousands of alumni of TMGs’ competency development programs will understand why we always start each and every workshop with a contract between TMG and each attendee that stipulates the responsibility of each attendee if they want to develop competency – APPLICATION or ADOPTION. In a…
I heard this story last week on NPR (more about that later) and it made me think of an exercise we put our decision making classes through. It goes like this: Group A gets this question: You are in a store about to buy a sweater which will cost $70.…
Unless you have been in a cave or just hate football (soccer to the un initiated J), you know by now that Argentina just beat the Dutch. But did you know how many woodwork ( the goal used to be made of wood and not metal) shots there were – shots that hit the goal but didn’t go in? Or that Argentina made 639 passes compared to 818 for the Dutch? And by the way, Netherland covered slightly more distance than Argentina but significantly more distance with possession of the ball? Or the completion rate of the passes and whether they were long, medium or short? And on and on and on.
Who remembers the summer of 2011 when Netflix, Inc. raised its prices by 60% (“Netflix raises price of DVD and Online Movies Package by 60%” NY times 7.12.11) and lost almost one million customers? Fast forward to October 22, 2013 where Netflix reported adding 1.3 million U.S. customers just in the third quarter ( “Subscribers Fuel Netflix Stock” – WSJ) to eke out HBO by one million subscribers. In addition, its stock price is up 282% since the beginning of the year. How did they do it?
