For those of us who write about business, every once in a while, a book or an article comes along that seems so simple on some levels yet communicates great wisdom. "The Connection Culture: A New Source of Competitive Advantage" is one such work. Here's a link to the download. The author is Michael Lee...
Dear Michael, Remember when I came down there to Round Rock and interviewed you and Kevin Rollins almost five years ago? It was for Chief Executive magazine. Basically, I believed you and Kevin when you told me that it was possible for two people to share the...
I know this marks me as oh-so-last century, but one American military officer fighting in Vietnam was quoted as saying, "We had to destroy the village to save it." In other words, to prevent the village from falling into the hands of the Commies, it had to be torched. ...
By now, it's the perceived wisdom that people who are chief executive officers should not also be chairmen of the board. Institutional Shareholder Services and all sorts of rating agencies state, with complete conviction, that the job should be split--at all times, and at all companies. But...
Three partners from McKinsey based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley have written a very provocative article on future technology trends. It's well worth a look. They examine eight trends, but the one that rings home with me is called "distributing cocreation." Basically, they are predicting that...
Bravo to the board of Coca-Cola and Chairman and CEO Neville Isdell: This is how to handle CEO succession. Isdell, who is 64, announced he would step down as CEO and turn over the reins to Muhtar Kent, 55, who had been serving as president and chief...
If you're ever tempted to undertake a cross-cultural merger or acquisition, think real hard about it. Very hard. Lucent's merger with France's Alcatel is a case in point. Although much ballyhooed when Lucent CEO Pat Russo and Alcatel CEO Serge Tchuruk reached the deal 18 months ago,...