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Tesla and the paradigm shift
Reading about Elon Musk and Tesla, I remember reading what seemed like heady material in a PR course taught by the inimitable Prof. Steve Blewett a few years back. Titled The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn, more than a few of us were confused as to why we were reading a book by a renowned…
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How the Navy SEALs train for leadership excellence
On Leadership – continuing the Navy SEAL theme… Although producing excellence, incentivizing excellence, incorporating new ideas from the ground and leading by example is a matter of life and death with SEALs, organizations who wish to remain competitive can adopt the same strategies. Originally posted on HBR. Almost every world-class, high-performance organization takes training and education seriously.…
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If you want happy workers, stop treating them like children
This article was brought to my attention by the fine folks at HBR – thought I’d share: Recently, there’s been something of a happiness backlash against America’s obsession with feeling happy at work. That’s because some companies have been going about it in the wrong way, working on short-term solutions that tend to treat employees…
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The Necessity of Failure
I would hope by now, that everyone understands that failure is nothing to fear. Also understand that getting to that point is a real trick sometimes. “There are very few black-and-white truths in management or in business, but one that I have found is that people either hire people who are smarter than them or…