NOW TIME – 2
You can prototype a business vision very quickly in NOW time: Zoom from vision to reality with hypersonic Mach speed. The impacts of steering a business from this kind of cockpit can be jarring. A [...]
April 2010
NOW TIME – 1
Back in 1990, John Guare wrote a play called Six Degrees of Separation. Three years later, that play led to a film with the same title starring Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland and Ian [...]
March 2010
SUSTAINABLE: THE NEW FASHION SMART
During the recent deep downturn, alarmists painted a bleak picture of consumer behavior and retreat: • Frills would disappear forever. • Consumers would agonize endlessly over buying decisions. • High-utility products would drive style and [...]
February 2010
SUCCESS: THE NON-FORMULA FORMULA
If you strolled through Boston Commons during Halloween season in the first half of the last decade, you were likely bowled over by a scaffolding jammed with tens of thousands of glimmering carved pumpkins. Those [...]
INVIGORATING BUSINESS REFLEXES
Not long ago, the spiritualist and mind-body expert Deepak Chopra stopped in for a chat. What was intended to be a brief conversation turned into a four-hour idea fest. As is well known, Deepak is [...]
October 2009
UTILITY’S NEW GLAMOR
In today's marketplace, the bigger the brands, the less valuable they have often become. Power brands have marketed themselves to create an image. But, their investment has not been geared toward how they enhance your [...]
September 2009
A CONSUMER BLUEPRINT FOR A BLACKBERRY WORLD
The Swiss Army Knife is an icon for a multi-application tool. On the product landscape since 1897, its early options like a bottle opener, mini-scissors, corkscrew, and screwdriver are familiar to us. Have you looked [...]
August 2009
THE AGILE ENTREPRENEUR – 8
Entrepreneurs are a bit like atom smashers. They provoke and harness collisions, what I term attractive accidents. ▪ They know how to bring together and constructively confront people in different disciplines and often with opposing [...]
THE AGILE ENTREPRENEUR – 7
Successful entrepreneurs are very much like archeologists, as well as detectives. Better said, their style resembles that of accomplished archeological guides. After you discover an exciting strategic truth about your business, communicating it is your [...]
THE AGILE ENTREPRENEUR – 6
Great entrepreneurs are inveterate detectives. I visited the Brainy Quote website for some chestnuts about detection from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of that master sleuth Sherlock Holmes: ▪ "It has long been an [...]