Gary Hamel wrote in an article entitled “Moon Shots for Management” Harvard Business Review 2/2009: “As an emotional catalyst, wealth maximization lacks the power to fully mobilize human energies‚¬Â¦ For these reasons, tomorrow’s management practices must focus on the achievement of socially significant and noble goals.” So true! Without a greater purpose you cannot get…
A dear friend of mine gave me an inspiring book to celebrate the starting of Bright Operations. In the book is a quote: “The future is not some place we are going to, but a place we are creating. The paths to it are not found, they are made” – Jane Garvey. I hope the…
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Harvard Business Review did a study on Strategic Execution (article “How Hierarchy Can Hurt Strategy Execution”) “leaders should consider making strategy formulation more bottom-up and should communicate more clearly – through out the ranks – about what the company is trying to achieve”. To add on to this, even those that engage their team in…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The recession ended in June 2009, making it the longest downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, theNational Bureau of Economic Research said on Monday. The NBER, considered the arbiter of U.S. recessions, said its declaration did not mean the economy had “returned to operating at normal capacity” and cautioned that economic activity sometimes remains below…