December 2011
3 posts
When a CEO is outweighed by his or her employees
This is the view of the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals stadium for 6 out of the 8 home
games this year.
The Bengals improved by 5 wins this year, have been in playoff contention or in
the playoffs in the last week of the season 7 of head coach Marvin Lewis’ 9
seasons and overall the past decade minus last year and the ‘08 run have been
a pretty competitive team.
But Mike Brown,...
From Good to Great
One of the great business books is From Good to Great by Jim Collins.
It speaks about many still useful practices for business and life but one
of its core values is how quickly you can become great if you do all of the
right things and people will forget that you were ever just “good.”
On the flip side if you don’t continue to do the “great” things you will be
...
Eras End and Begin and We Constantly Evolve
The above photo is the fossil of a whale.
On my trip to Chicago last week I spent a few hours at the Field Museum in
Downtown Chicago. One of the interesting facts I learned was that whales
actually had legs in the early stages of their species.
They evolved over millions of years into the creatures that we know today.
For some reason I found this fascinating…mainly b/c it explained...