Just a couple weeks ago — on December 14, 2009, to be exact — one of my favorite thinkers and bloggers, Seth Godin, released a new FREE eBook called What Matters Now. It’s a PDF collection of short, topical blurbs from some of the best writers and idea people around.
I was invited by Mazda to attend the Los Angeles Auto Show at the LA Convention Center on December 2, 2009.
Mazda really surprised me, in a good way — but it wasn’t really because of their new car, the Mazda2 (although that was nice too)…
Reprinted from Mike Morrison’s fantastic email newsletter (November 4, 2009).
The path toward mastery is not only critical to achieving a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment in our lives — it is essential to creating meaningful change as a leader.
We tend to think of the process of achieving mastery in terms of a “huge”…
Once upon a time, in the thick of the American industrial revolution, a highly respected and influential leader is said to have exclaimed:
Why is it that I always get the whole person when what I really want is a pair of hands?
That leader was Henry Ford…
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
I’ve experienced this firsthand, as likely have you. How many times have we seen a “great idea” for our organization get buried… somehow, mysteriously, and at the end reflect back on the process only to realize we have no idea how exactly it died?
Short answer: the culture killed it.