Category Archives: General

Lean Team Management

Before we sold Miller-Howard Consulting Group to Towers Perrin in 1998, the core of our work was implementing team-based organization. We had two workbooks that defined our process and enabled our clients. These were the Team Management manual and Change … Continue reading

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Sustainable Wealth

Among other things, and the BIG thing I am working on now is a re-write of the New Capitalism book. So, why am I re-writing? That book had already been through several revisions and it took me a while to … Continue reading

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The Social Capital Deficit

Financial capital, the focus of so much media attention these days, is a result of, but does not produce, social capital. Our economic woes will not be solved until we come to understand the pillars upon which wealth rests. Banks … Continue reading

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A National Strategy for Competitiveness

I want to be the moderator at the next Presidential candidate debates. There are a couple questions I would like to ask about their plans for creating national wealth. Continue reading

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Back from the Dead!

I’m finished writing!!!! Continue reading

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Managementfirst Interview

And, here is a wonderful and helpful interview of……me! I think they did a good job. Continue reading

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Lessons from Katrina: 2

A few of the many lessons in management and leadership to be learned from the pre and post of hurricane Katrina. Continue reading

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Leadership Under Fire – Katrina’s Aftermath

The preparation and the response to “The Big One” in New Orleans should result in a complete re-assessment of how we choose and appoint our leaders. Any good corporate executive knows which jobs are best done by lawyers and which are best done by generals. Continue reading

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Broad Slicing the Organization (or Country!)

In Blink the author defined thin slicing as the ability to make quick judgments. What we need now is the ability to engage in broad slicing, the ability to identify unifying themes that slice across all units and people in an organization. Continue reading

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Changing the Culture: The Whole Loaf of Bread

What could be better than sliced bread? A whole loaf. But when you have a culture of continually slicing the bread to find solutions to problems it may be hard to put the pieces of the culture together. Continue reading

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