Good posting about some of the traps that you can fall into if you are a smart person... more »

This article from BNet outlines eight ways in which your Social Media strategy can fail. Watching from within my current employer, I can see a number of these mistakes unfolding on a daily basis... more »

...are very common in most businesses. We are all wearily familiar with the change initiative launched in a blaze of glory by the CEO that rapidly becomes a joke within the corporation, fizzles out and leaves everybody connected with it frustrated or bur… more »

For some time, I have been wrestling with why I was unable to communicate as effectively as I wanted to using PowerPoint, which, for better or worse, has become the de facto standard for visual slide-based presentations in modern corporations (and it eve… more »

More excellent definitions from Fad Surfing In The Boardroom: Blame The living embodiment of the principle that it is indeed better to give than to receive. Exogenous variables What got us into trouble. Not to be confused with management decision… more »

From Eileen Shapiro's excellent book "Fad Surfing in the Boardroom", I offer this collection of Wednesday definitions for aspiring managers, leaders and sage observers of corporate life: Accountability A characteristic of which everybody else in this… more »