Posted on October 24th, 2009 by mschutterop
My wife volunteers for our neighborhood associations. Twice a year it issues a newsletter and the key activities it sponsors are a neighborhood garage sale, a Halloween parade and a holiday luminaries event. The driving purpose behind the association is stimulation relationships between neighbors. As we took an evening stroll we started to ponder whether […]
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Posted on October 24th, 2009 by mschutterop
To build a great team, we are told, we need to hire the best, or as Mark Suster put it in his terrific post last week: “In my experience B players hire C people. A begets A, B begets C. Don’t go there.” We have also learned through surveys like this one http://bit.ly/ROiZS to “hire […]
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Posted on October 13th, 2009 by mschutterop
Communication is a critical responsibility of every leader, one typically exercised on a daily basis. T. Boone Pickens during his Keynote address at the the Project Management Institute (PMI) Global Congress in Orlando this week confirmed what so many of us know to be true. “There is no such thing as over communication”. Yet, so […]
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Posted on October 6th, 2009 by mschutterop
Right around 1997 Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema released The Discipline of Market Leaders. It was an exciting book for me and my colleagues at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) because the book was researched by the CSC Index division. A few years earlier CSC’s own Michael Hammer and James Champy revolutionized how we think about […]
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Posted on October 5th, 2009 by mschutterop
Friday evening I walked into Jeremiah’s Tavern and made eye contact with the group at the bar. There were shouts of “Hey Mike!”, smiles and hugs all around. It had been almost 2 years since the last time we saw each other like this. Too long, but we picked up like it was yesterday, just […]
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