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In Business, Failure Is Always An Option

By on May 16, 2013 in Business, Management, Strategic Planning

Everyone hates to fail but innovation and progress cannot happen without risk-taking and conflict. And with risk comes failure. In fact, I would guess that risk takers fail more than they succeed. As Samuel Smiles said in 1859, “We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by [...]

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Adaptive Project Management for Marketing

By on April 11, 2013 in General Marketing, Management, Strategic Planning

Marketing projects require the same systematic approach that is common to all business initiatives. Establishing the objectives, determining strategic options, making selections and then implementing them requires the same kinds of methodology that is needed for every organizational activity. A process must be established but it must be flexible enough to accommodate unforeseen complications. Adaptive [...]

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Telecommuting: To Be, Or Not To Be (at Home)

By on March 7, 2013 in Business, Management, Media Review, Movie Review, Public Relations, Strategic Planning

Last week, CEO Marissa Mayer shook up the business world by announcing that Yahoo would stop allowing employees to work at home after June. In recent years, more workers have begun to telecommute and outsourcing to off-site contractors has become commonplace, so this decision was startling, especially from an internet company.  There has been a [...]

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Entrepreneurship: Qualifying your Customers

By on February 28, 2013 in Business, Customer Service, Management, Strategic Planning

We all know that, with a large enough sample, a minority of factors accounts for the majority of the work, income, attention, emotional investment etc. that will be required.  In economics, this is called the Pareto Principle and is also known as the 80/20 Rule. It asserts that about 80% of the results will come [...]

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Better Decisions Through Diversity

By on February 21, 2013 in Business, Management, Strategic Planning

In the 1950s, workers in the average office all looked alike. Now, there are women and many different cultures and backgrounds at all functional levels in the workplace. The greater the dissimilarities in the group, the larger the barriers to communication. From a practical standpoint, an organization must find ways to bridge those gaps despite [...]

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