I was looking into my blog, and found this article, which I shared almost a year back, however, I realized it was not published and kept as draft. It came as a great conincidence as I am reading the ‘Steve Jobs: Biography by Walter Isaacson”. One of the thing I personally admire about Apple and Jobs is how they nurture overperformance and excellence,...

Very often, I emphasize on the importance of “facing the brutal facts” for businesses to overcome their challenges and have a good strategy for winning. Unless you know, unless you acknowledge, unless you accept that a problem exists, you simply can not fix it. This is simply what Professor Richard Rumelt attempts to explain in his insightful article at...

Recently, I was part of an audience for several product demos. This was part of a bidding process to select an enterprise solution for my company. A specific audience, with various calibers, expertise and interests were assembled from IT and business. There were finance managers and executives, procurement officers, project managers, business analysts and...

Good articulation of McGregor X & Y Theory and nice addition by having the U ‘Utopia’ and T ‘Tragic’. The full article can be read on Booz&Company here. To summarize: Theory X: “Theory X says that the average human being is lazy and self-centered, lacks ambition, dislikes change, and longs to be told what to do. The...

I can not agree more!. Booz&Co commentary is here, while you can read the full paper here. “More than one-third of workers in the United States have been pushed around by upper management, meaning their bosses have belittled, sabotaged, or yelled at them, according to a study from research firm Zogby International and the Workplace Bullying Institute, a...

This article could possibly be one of the best I’ve read in motivational theories and practices. The authors; Katzenbach and Khan, had articulated the importance of emotional motivation wonderfully, especially in their discussion of the young lady at the Marines. Undoubtedly, I am one of the fans of the non-monetary motivational school. Managers have to quit...