Posted in observations, tagged communication, observations, process on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do we need personalized processes? The question seems to defy common sense. A personalized process is the antithesis of what corporations have been striving for, for so many years. I thought we all agreed that processes should be standardized, uniform, one size fits one problem type of solutions? So what’s this about personalization?
Grocery Store
When it [...]
Posted in observations, tagged communication, crowdsourcing, observations on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve had outsourcing. We’ve had offshoring. We’ve had insourcing. Now we have crowdsourcing.
One of the points of crowdsourcing is that the community is the corporation. But how is that going to work in practice? You can give a prize to someone who helps you discover a new site to drill for oil or dig for [...]
Posted in observations, tagged leadership, observations, results on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In any given situation there are only three decisions that can be made: productive, unproductive or counterproductive. These decisions will lead to positive, ambiguous or negative results, depending on the perspective of the person observing the results.
A leader is expected to make productive decisions that lead to positive results. In such a situation, perspective is [...]
