Great column from Rich Kaarlgard at Forbes called “How Fast Can You Learn?”
In the new economy, he challenges leaders: “Your job is to enlist as many smart people as you can to pull your company in the direction you want it to go. Your job is to learn and adapt as fast as the digital networks will let you.”
This is a much different challenge than traditional strategy development and execution. Are you ready?
Opportunity is all around you. I believe that opportunity is everywhere at all times. Every moment presents opportunity to grow and create. What do you want to create? More prosperity? Stronger, healthier relationships? New business? It’s all right here, right now. Yet very often people don’t see the opportunities right in front of them. Why…
Why are we here? Why do we exist? These are the questions of the existential crisis. Many people and organizations avoid these questions because they can be scary to confront. We fear spiraling into despair, lack of meaning, or irrelevance. It is much more comfortable to cruise along in the status quo, oblivious to these…
Interesting quote in Chief Learning Officer magazine article about the importance of employee engagement. "You end up with solutions that sometimes are not designed to work in the real world because no one working the frontline jobs was asked about whether this would work or not," Kanazawa said. "So you have a lack of engagement,…
When I was a kid, I loved to watch reruns of The Little Rascals. In my favorite episode, “Two Too Young,” Alfalfa must recite the famous poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade. In this poem, Lord Tennyson memorializes the disastrous and suicidal charge of a British light cavalry brigade during the Crimean War. In…
Ten years ago, I made a decision to start my own business, which I named Aligned Action. What exactly is Aligned Action? Not as a business name, but as an idea that you can use to grow your business? Aligned Action is an Art. We all know art when we see it. When done well, art…
When I was about ten years old, I lived in Warner Robins, Georgia, where my dad was stationed at the big US Air Force base. My parents signed me up for the base soccer team, which was part of a youth soccer league in the town. There was an ongoing rivalry between the base team…
