Inc magazine's FreshInc blog has a post today about San Francisco and its outlook as a business center. Our future looks good - despite high cost of living and not so business-friendly politics. Why? The reason, more than anything else, is that the city continues...
A must-read article in this week's FORTUNE Magazine In an earlier post I shared my astonished reaction to Wal-Mart's sustainability initiative. I had just attended a corporate performance management conference and my impression of Wal-Mart had been turned...
Does your business model rely on volume? Are you constantly seeking blockbuster products? A new book The Long Tail by Chris Anderson challenges the traditional blockbuster mentality. It’s currently ranked #18 at Amazon (yesterday it was #38). Hit products make sense...
I just saw An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary featuring Al Gore and his global warming crusade. I recommend the film - regardless of your feelings about Al Gore, the message is impactful and important. Al Gore's campaign against global warming demonstrates...
Are you innovative? Do you approach problems from a different perspective than the way we've always done it? Are your solutions to complex problems clever and imaginative? Obviously, finance executives should not be too innovative when if comes to accounting...
In a recent post the management guru Tom Peters raves about the entrepreneur-friendly San Francisco Bay AreaWe could, as a nation, do a helluva lot worse than emulating San Francisco and the Bay Area. In fact, I fervently believe we'd have a hard time doing...
Joe Nocera's NYTimes column today is about the 50th anniversary of the shipping container. That's right - those big 40 foot long steal boxes stacked high on the ships I see every day moving through the Golden Gate en route to and from the big container port...
This month's Harvard Business Review is dedicated to decision making. There is an interesting article about companies that tap their analytic prowess a competitive advantage. A brief summary: We all know the power of the killer app. It's not just a support...
