Sprinkling the Pixie Dust
I was very new to the company. I was in a meeting with the regional vice president and the regional …
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Dr Pepper’s Shadow
One day, an executive decides to have lunch in the associate cafeteria for the first time. Immediately recognized, she chats …
7 Corporate Tenets… and a Witch Hunt
We were 100 strong, spending an afternoon out of the corporate office in a department meeting reviewing progress and plans. …
Management by Walking Around…in a Loop
A CEO who had begun to practice his own form of “management-by-walking-around” learned from his employees that the company inhibited …
Jerry’s Trip to Abilene
That July afternoon in Coleman, Texas was particularly hot — 104 degrees according to the Walgreen’s Rexall’s thermometer. In addition, …
Time Out: An Application Possibility
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in …
Doing the Math; Not Necessary!
“I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by …
The High Wire Act of Organizational Change
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. — Alfred North Whitehead …
Don’t Climb That Pole!
Four monkeys were put into a room. In the center of the room was a tall pole with a bunch …
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