All Posts Tagged With: "Management Style"
I first heard this phrase from my good friend and sometime mentor, Danny McNulty, when we worked together at Cable & Wireless. You may have heard of the book What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark H McCormack, well, just like McCormack, Danny is full of tried and tested management techniques and [...]
Continue ReadingMaybe I am being naive but working in a private equity backed business makes me wonder about the effect of quarterly reporting on capital markets. Living and dying by sales forecasts, revenues and margins quarter by quarter and always considering what the market will think before deploying capital is debilitating for a board of directors. Lets look [...]
Continue ReadingAccording to a new online study from Reuters, evaluating the characteristics of 25,000 American adults, avid technology consumers tended to score highly in personality traits such as leadership, dynamism and assertiveness — but low in modesty.
Perhaps this helps to explain why technologists seem to think that every business (and world politics) problem has a technology solution, [...]
