Image via Wikipedia Highlights from Mintzberg ‘s The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning Ch 1: planning and strategy. Mintzberg offers definitions in this chapter. He asks “Is strategy making simply a process of planning or is it simply an oxymoron? Should strategy always be planned, never be planned or sometimes be planned? What’s the […]
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Can the next Obama Beer Summit be far off?
As I review the administration’s knee-jerk response to the Sherrod incident, I couldnt help but think that we are about due for another beer summit to make everything nice between the NAACP, USDA, and the Tea Party and the Black Panthers and the Governor of Arizona, and the CEO of BP, and the Gov of […]
Reflections on strategic leadership
Image via Wikipedia This weekend I really enjoyed a podcast from a current strategic leadership text on the subject of emerging trends in global strategic leadership. Here are the slides: CurrentTrendsInStrategicManagement I compared the discussion in slide 2 “new realities in the 21st century” to the military’s formal description of the “Operational Environment” which we use […]
1.8T in cash on the sidelines in corporate coffers
Why is this a jobless recovery? a recovery?! ha! Still, Fareed Zakaria offers some damning insights. This really shouldn’t take you by surprise One CEO told me, “Almost every agency we deal with has announced some expansion of its authority, which naturally makes me concerned about what’s in store for us for the future.” Another […]
Obama: killer of jobs
Here are two perspectives: Obama’s record on job creation: The current occupant of the White House claims to know how to create jobs. He claims jobs have been created. But so far the score is Great Obama Depression 2.2 million lost jobs, Obama 0 — a blowout. The always perceptive Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on the feeling […]
Obama care in practice: this is how we do it here
Yes he can The Democratic chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee lambasted the Obama administration over its handling of an incident at a St. Louis VA center in which more than 1,800 veterans were told they may have been exposed to HIV. “It’s outrageous, one, that this happens, but even worse is this secretive, […]
Obama does science now
.Something this smart has to come from the very top NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA’s orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al […]
Estimating reasonable profit targets for swing trades
breathing = trading
ask yourself: “what is the crowd waiting for?” “What do they need to see?” What would confirm in their mind that the trade is NOW?!” learn to see it before it happens create separation between you and the crowd be on the edge of them, so you can sense the mood, but don’t be inside […]
No more Easter egg hunts: promoting search and discovery in the classroom
Image via Wikipedia Think about how we assign readings and discussion questions. Let me exaggerate (am I?) and say that we: …engineer the amount of reading based on words per minute, and convert that into pages, and then assign “x” number of pages. We select readings that “surround” the answer we want the students to […]