I’m a business owner. I value stability, but I also value improvements. I value low taxes, but I also value a well-educated populace and well-maintained transportation systems. I value freedom from unnecessary bureaucracy, but I also value beneficial controls and … Read More
There’s a question I hear occasionally about the use of Income/Outcome for teaching fundamental business concepts: “But would it work in other countries?” That’s like asking if the Periodic Table of elements applies on other planets. The answer is Yes. … Read More
Fortune magazine, October 29, 2012: “There’s No Quit in Michael Porter. He has influenced more executives – and more nations – than any other business professor on Earth. Now, at 65, he and an all-star team aim to rescue the … Read More
Hewlett-Packard is in the news at the moment over a reassessment of the value of UK-based Autonomy which it bought last year. Autonomy is a world leader in “meaning-based computing”, the analysis and use of all the unstructured information that … Read More
When I was young and inexperienced in running business simulations, many years ago, I led a 3-day workshop for a Fortune 50 computer manufacturer in which the participants came from a variety of departments. People sat with their friends. The … Read More
You get different benefits from attending an Income/Outcome workshop, depending on whether you are attending as an individual, as part of a team, or as part of an extensive rollout by your company. As an individual, you will learn “the … Read More
I’m in an airport. I’m in Dammam where I taught a 3-day Financial Acumen workshop for Saudi Electricity last week, flying to the Netherlands to teach a 3-day Managing a Global Business workshop for Heinz this week. Then I have … Read More
Two weeks ago Andromeda Training was a corporate attendee in Paris at the annual conference of the Executive MBA Council. I’m illustrating it with the logo from the conference a couple of years ago, because I think that better captures the … Read More
Americans and Canadians think they have problems with bureaucracy. I agree that bureaucracy can be an evil that prevents business development and stifles entrepreneurial initiative and limits an entire country to being an economic backwater. I’m not talking about an … Read More
What’s up with Minnesota, anyway? They ban this, they ban that… “Minnesota bans Bisphenol A” – well, at least for baby’s bottles and sippy-cups. The rest of us can die of cancer from the linings of cans. A lot of … Read More