What Jack Welch Started – Jeff Immelt Ends.

It is not about making money. It is not about maximizing shareholder values. Those components of business are the gauges on the system that produces goods and services that have value for customers.

Profits with a Purpose: Conscious Leaders Share Their Insights

The Conscious Capitalism Institute (CCI) is pleased to invite you to an Online MasterClasses series on “Profits with a Purpose”. This fall series continues the dialog & excitement generated by the Conscious Capitalism Conference presented by Bentley University & CCI in May 2010. Participate in four interactive online MasterClasses with renowned thought leaders in Conscious [...]

Visionary Culture Radio: How Do Leaders Cause Leaders?

In anticipation of the Leaders Causing Leaders Live Event – November 6 – 7 in Long Beach, California – Norman Wolfe participated in a radio show to discuss his part as a speaker at this historic event and the changing role in leadership. How Do Leaders Cause Leaders? w/ Laura Fox http://www.visionarycultureradio.com Listen to internet [...]

Come Join Me for An Event for Change

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Strategic Planning is Dead – Setting a Sound Strategic Direction is Not

If you don’t know where you are going, any direction will get you there. By now you know that I am not a big proponent of the traditional annual strategic planning process.  Yet I do feel very strongly that one of the key objectives for these sessions is still critically important; perhaps even more important [...]

RealTimeExecutionWave™ – A New Decision-Making Framework

In his recent posting. Norman wrote on our belief that traditional strategic planning processes and frameworks have failed to adapt to the nature of the modern business environment, and are no longer the optimal approach to high-level decision-making within an organization. We believe that a new decision-making framework – the RealTimeExecutionWave™ – better accelerates execution. [...]

Strategic Planning is Dead – Long Live Strategy Execution

WARNING:  If your environment doesn’t change much and the way you do business today is fundamentally the way you will be doing business in the next 5 – 10 years – DO NOT READ THIS! In my previous blog, I declared Strategic Planning was obsolete.  The current approach for defining where an organization is going [...]

New Toyota vs. Old Toyota – It’s All About Soul

I was recently sent a blog post by Peter De Lorenzo, “The AutoExtremist”, on Toyota’s recent recall woes, or as Peter put it: “Toyota’s got trouble alright…Trouble with a capital ‘T’.”  Let me share a few paragraphs: “The harsh reality for Toyota is that it went too far overboard in striving to become the biggest, [...]

Retaining Top Talent With Non-Monetary Rewards Part 2

Part One listed four of seven things companies can do to retain their top talent without spending a lot or giving increases in compensation. The first four from Part One are: 1) Verbal Praise 2) Achievement Awards 3) Learning and Development 4) Fun and Recreation Events Each of these can be done at the department [...]

When Does A Company Exit a Market Based on Principle?

The issue of principles-based business decision-making came to the forefront this past week with the decision by Google to withdraw from the Chinese market following an apparent major cyber-attack on it’s systems (as well as a number of other technology firms.) Google’s corporate motto is “Do no evil”, and it personally struck me odd (as [...]

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