http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB1178.pdf If a large organization like the Army which is so renowned for the quality and caliber of its leadership and integrity as difficulties with different levels of command and leaders telling the truth to each other, how much of an unseen force is the lack of candor in commercially-based organizations where there is more […]
Tag: management
commentary on managing change
Motivation Creating a vision Managing politics Manage transition Sustain momentum Can you crosswalk those five major activities to and AI approach? How can AI positively affect each of those? What can we do to reinforce new behaviors at the managerial level? Once the speeches are over and the awards have been presented we all […]
reflections on Kotter’s change model and appreciative inquiry
Should organizations be looking at how to change themselves to adapt to an environment or should they look for environments in which their organization is prone to succeed and stay with what they know? Those who believe in the latter approach, are advocates of the core competency model. Kotter‘s model is concerned about minimizing error […]
Making the Invisible Visible: Understanding Leadership Contributions of Asian Minorities in the Workplace
This small quiet book on leadership deserves to become visible so that its message of quiet leadership can be absorbed into our business and political organizations worldwide. Who are the invisible leaders? How do we make them visible? Back up for a moment: SHOULD we MAKE them visible, or is our understanding of leadership in […]
experiment with housewives trading the futures during one of the most volatile weeks in the last 50 years
the ladies traded very well, netting 2K for the week, using simple support & resistance levels, with good risk management and money management techniques. they traded 2 indices: Russell2000 and the DJIA, at contract per trade, with an initial risk of 250; they added some practrice tardes in some currencies later in the week fro […]
Blended monthly rebalancing strategy
Beginning July 1st I will be shifting the 331, 631 and 333 strategies to a “Blended Monthly Rebalancing” strategy in this space. As a result of the hard work and backtesting of many mastermind members I am satisfied that we have found a ruleset that offers improved reward:risk, and risk management. The 3 systems we […]
Reflections on risk management in organizations
Book review notes from “Surviving and thriving in uncertainty: Creating the risk intelligent enterprise” by Frederick Funston and Steven Wagner. Funston, F., & Wagner, S. (2010). Surviving and thriving in uncertainty: creating the risk intelligent enterprise. Jphn Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ. I was led to this book during our environmental scanning for higher education. […]
Reflective learning in the markets
daily reports attached and some case studies that continue our development of the WMB entry technique (Williams%R, MACD-H, Breakout on candles) (Will Make Bank) Silver rewarded us by holding overnight on a large gap up, and we squeezed another 4-6R out of it, depending on how exits were managed. We saw the relative strength in the […]
Review notes on Garrett Jones text on organizational theory, sixth edition
Image via Wikipedia Notes from Gareth Jones “Organizational Theory Design and Change, Sixth Edition” notes from the preface and introduction: Jones is looking for a relevance and current textbook to summarize theory – in – use, and notes that he wants to capture the most important global themes and promises to include the following ideas: […]
A reflection on Panasonic’s annual plan for 2010
Image via Wikipedia Ken’s notes on Panasonic: http://panasonic.net/vision/amp/ is the link to Panasonic’s Anil annual management plan (AMP) Panasonic’s annual vision and strategy plan notes: the new Panasonic group is sorting out how to incorporate Sanyo electric Company into their business while maintaining their current management philosophy of “contributing to the progress and development of […]