Hot or Not? When a product, idea or topic becomes the newest hot talking point, it has gained “social contagion”; this is a good thing, and it can happen spontaneously. For example, a new house of worship can naturally experience a boom of interest within a community, or a pressing political cause can inspire people…
Modern Bloodletting The problem with management is that it still works under the flawed Industrial Age paradigm. Consider that physicians in the Middle Age practised bloodletting. As barbaric as that may seem today, using leeches to draw blood from a sick person simply followed from the era’s paradigm that if you were ill, bad material…
Seven Habits The seven habits of highly effective people are: 1. They take initiative. “Be Proactive.” 2. They focus on goals. “Begin with the End in Mind.” 3. They set priorities. “Put First Things First.” 4. They only win when others win. “Think Win/Win.” 5. They communicate. “Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood.”…
