There will been several essays that spring from this conversation. This is not the first.
INNOVATION WHEN THE NEW ENTERPRISE LOOKS THE SE
Baseball is not close to a perfect arena for viewing the management tendency to hold onto the protocols. On its surface, baseball has rules and umpires and prescribed schedules and about 130 years of [...]

its not an easy lesson to internalize. Beyond baseball, and especially in business arenas, managers facing very alien environments are most likely to practice a form of denial — choosing to use old methods that come from a different context (in and of itself, not a bad first approach) and then not relentlessly monitoring the [...]

My buddy Dave Kurlan, a leading mind who uses science and hard data to help organizations hire and train successful sales staff, posted an entry to his weblog about using the World Series-headed Boston Red Sox as a template to remake your own talent management.
Here’s one essential point from his entry we both lead with [...]

So its taken a while to internalise the idea that “getting it right” trumps the comfort of tradition. That weighting is not not universal; the last couple of years, Ive attended the General Managers’ November meets, and I heard plenty of Bitgod (Back In The Good Old Days) rants from babseball people and reporters opposed [...]

Selvfølgelig en kjærkommen unnskyldning når man på telttur sitter med blødende blemmer på beina og viftende armer mens resten av reisefølget blide og fornøyde koser seg i shorts og singlet. Likefullt pisspreik. De fleste mygg venter på offeret sitt i busk og kratt. Når offeret kommer forbi merker myggen det på flere forskjellige måter; dels [...]