by George Ambler on May 16, 2010
In the May edition of the Ignite! Newsletter published by The Ken Blanchard Companies there is an interesting article on trust. The article discusses the ABCD Trust Model™ from Cynthia Olmstead, founder and president of TrustWorks Group, Inc. which comprises the following four elements of trust: Able: demonstrates competence, expertise, experience, and capability in getting [...]
by George Ambler on February 21, 2010
Photo by Anderaz Don Dodge, a Developer Advocate at Google whose jb it is to help developers build new applications on Google platforms and technologies, wrote an interesting post “How Google sets goals and measures success” discussing how Google goes about goal setting. Don describes the central philosophy to Google’s approach to goal setting is [...]
by George Ambler on November 1, 2009
Forbes.com released their 2009 “The Most Influential business Thinkers” results. The consulting firm CrainerDearlove compiled this list of today’s top thinkers, by surveyed 3,500 people and a panel of experts to determine the 2009 edition of the Thinkers 50, the fifth edition of a biennial list of the most influential living management thinkers. This years [...]
by George Ambler on August 30, 2009
Photo by kenteegardin The article “For This Guru, No Question Is Too Big” from the NY Times discusses the work of the best selling business author Jim Collins. Given the popularity of Jim Collins the article discussed how he allocates his time, which is as follows: “… in a corner of the white board [...]
by George Ambler on August 9, 2009
Extract from the Netflix “Reference Guide on our Freedom & Responsibility Culture” The shaping of culture is a critical leadership responsibility, as I have discussed on many occasions. One of the best examples of this is the observation made by Lou Gerstner, the former IBM CEO who is credited with IBM’sturnaround, in his book on [...]