I always try to convey to my MBA students that a strong focus on customers and employees are the holy grail in the search for sustainable business success. Should one research the vision statements...
Golf is a game I love. I am not good at it, but I love the game. It helps me to relax. It also helps me to size up other people. You cannot hide...
About a week ago I heard a friend of mine had been fired as MD of a winery. In addition, the marketing budget of the winery had been cut severely. All of this on...
Over the past few years I have increasingly realized that strategy is not being implemented. I see it in the business world. I read about it in the academic world. I hear about it...
This title sounds like the law of the jungle. It could also have been read as survival of the fittest. Let me explain what I mean. I had the opportunity to attend a morning...
Entrepreneurship training sucks. Most of them in any case! Way back in 1993 I started with my MBA. One of the first articles I stumbled upon was “Teaching Entrepreneurship through the Classics.” The author...
A number of years ago, knowledge used to be viewed as a source of competitive advantage. Those who knew were in a better position than those who did not. Those who could memorize masses...
My brother phoned me a while ago and asked me about the progress of my PhD. When I answered him that I was exactly where I was in March 2008, he told me that...
People cannot be empowered. We can and should create an environment within which they feel themselves safe to empower themselves. Empowerment is mostly a psychological phenomenon, where the individual feels he/she can! And that cannot be done for them, but needs to be done together with them.
My friends in the wine industry tell me that there is more or less a hierarchy of wines. At the bottom end of the better quality wines you find popular premium, followed by super...
