Joel Peterson, Vice-Chair of JetBlue, investor and serial entrepreneur, spoke on at the Conference on Entrepreneurship at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business a few weeks ago:
When you think about topics to talk to entrepreneurs about, culture is one of the last ones you typically think about, because you’re in the business of getting something [...]
When we sit down to make change happen, when we seek to reinvent our organizations (and ourselves), what dynamics characterize that process?
Grant McCracken has come up with a short list based on his recent work on a "reinvention exercise" with "a large American corporation." I intend to refer back to this regularly in my own [...]
My last post on coincided with some thinking I’ve been doing on influence (which, of course, isn’t quite the same thing.) That work resulted in the model shown here, which is an attempt to understand not the conceptual basis of influence, a la , but a larger process that begins with a decision to [...]
, on behalf of its six member companies such as Paramount and Sony, in Shanghai against Xunlei over copyright infringement.
We are all worrying that once the foreigners win the lawsuit, they would be interested in going deeper, one after another, so that much of our entertainment would be gone.
Guilty or Not, is it important?
At the [...]
Twenty-five year-old Li Dongbing's suicide is being reported as the 37th—a number [zh]—in the company's 20-year history, and as with the reports from the second half of 2007 of Zhang Rui and Zhao Bing's suicides and Qiao Xiangying's sudden death due to over-exhaustion while in a company washroom, some revere the competitive culture at [...]
What makes a meeting successful? A team I’m a member of kicked off a project a few weeks ago, and before the first meeting the team leader asked everyone to come with two "ground rules" that would govern how we work together.
GROUND RULES
Be clear about how decisions will be made.
If one person (particularly the team [...]
