With many CEOs running their businesses into bankruptcy by making questionable business decisions and indulging in ego-driven excesses, the CEO of Japan Airlines proves that Americans can learn something from others. Just as Japanese business models helped it become a [...]

People leave managers, not companies January 31, 2012 This is the result of a Wilson Learning research on staff retention, presented in an article on HC Online a couple of years ago. It holds true today since little has changed in [...]

If you don’t give a damn about anything, no one will give a damn about you November 30, 2011 FORBES’ has a funny section which uses “visuals to tell stories, jokes, and truths.” Recently the section published an illustrated list [...]

Leaders of the Free Culture by Isaac Getz AUGUST, 2011 Truman is said to have mused about Eisenhower taking over the president’s office, issuing orders only to discover that nothing gets done in the bureaucratic swamp. But this fine politician [...]

Watch Bennis commenting on how to make one’s organization dancing Warren Bennis October 27, 2010 Here is a famous quote by Bennis: “There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment [...]

Command-and control Bob Knight against liberating leader John Wooden Bob Knight published in WSJ (APRIL 2, 2011) his “Coach’s Guide to the Final Four” which has following tips: At all those tournaments and more, I learned that coaches have to [...]

“Why” businesses and “How” businesses — again We attribute our discovery of the importance of asking “Why” (and not “How”) for building a great business to our encounter in 2005 with Jean-François Zobrist. In 2009 we discribed the concept in [...]

The Art of Action or on the superiority of the “why” organizations over the “how” ones by Stephen Bungay Since the Industrial Revolution, it has been claimed that the command-and-control approach to running a business is an imitation of the [...]

American poet on freedom and equality This is what Robert Frost wrote in his 1937 address “What became of New England”: In 1897 I was sitting in a class in college when I heard a man spend quite the part [...]

A book and a company who make businesses relaxed  and happy This is a very short 70-page book. But it tells a journey traveled by an unbelieving businessman from an outright stress to an ultimate relaxation–and even happiness. We enjoyed [...]