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How to Win in Africa

Leading Blog

They say business leaders tend to “underestimate Africa’s size and potential as a market, and overestimate the challenges of doing business there.”. Africa is the next growth market. Authors Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga and Georges Desvaux of McKinsey and Company, take a different view in Africa’s Business Revolution.

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Parkinson's Law of Triviality

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was first published in SmartBlog on Leadership on 11/29/2012: Have you ever noticed that committees or management teams tend to spend way too much time in meetings endlessly debating the most unimportant or mundane topics, while at the same time, not enough time on the most important or strategic issues?

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How do leaders make lasting change?

Lead on Purpose

He has expanded his research and applied his theories to other industries like health care, higher education and even governments and tax systems. I found two recent articles about Clayton Christensen that have increased my understanding about leadership: The first is published in the BYU Magazine’s Spring 2013 edition. (As

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Employee Turnover – The Hidden Cost

Chart Your Course

You have to watch your competitors and seek to always adapt to changes in the market, and innovate for solutions. Additionally, companies with high turnover of skilled employees, such as health care workers and hi-tech positions, may have to wait some time to fill that vacant spot.

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How Innovation Is Completely Different in Established Organizations than in Startups

Leading Blog

DIY chain Lowe’s, for example, is building 3D printers that print in zero gravity, thus opening up entirely new markets for themselves. Japanese airline ANA commissioned a global competition via the XPRIZE Foundation to create the future of travel that has now resulted in targeting the next big market: Space.

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Should a Leader’s Spouse Stay Out of the Limelight?

Great Leadership By Dan

Advisor Ira Magaziner’s recently released 1995 memo to President Bill Clinton about his ‘ultraliberal’ wife’s perceived influence on health-care reform hints at Hillary Clinton’s real influence as a spouse. Her greater wish, should she run and win, will be that her husband can lose himself in the White House.

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Teamwork: Sharing the Blame! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

The historic health care bill that is now on its. Leadership and “Hostilization” I recently agreed to appear in a court case concerning. Categories : Leadership Contact Sylvia Lafair, author of Dont Bring It To Work: Breaking the Family Patterns that Limit Success at sylvia@ceoptions.com. Are We Too Busy to Be Healthy?

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