Back when I was a consultant – feels like a hundred years ago now – there was a movement towards what Jack Stark called Open Book Management. This was popularized in a book of the same name by John Case back in the mid 90’s. Below is a picture from today’s all-hands meeting in which [...]
Sandi Mays of Zayo has a series of recent posts on leadership (A leadership lesson from Dan Caruso, A paycheck player, and Identify a great leader with this tool). There are important lessons and reminders in the posts, so it is well worth the read.
Another slant on the topic of leadership is the recognition of [...]
Is it a coincidence that Socialthing!, a 2007 TechStars company, won an IQ Award for innovation last week, and just announced on Friday that AOL is buying them?
It’s cool to see the interplay between an innovative idea, an organization like TechStars that can spot a promising concept, smart investors, insightful judges, and a deep-pocketed buyer. It’s just one [...]
The attached Face Book video is an example of incredibly poor management and decision making. The even scarier proposition is that the manager is on site. Imagine what happens when they aren’t. While MVaaS wouldn’t have solved for this incident, given that the manager was there and did nothing about it, it is a tool [...]
As our discussion continued, my friend let me know about another employee who was terminated for behavior that would never have happened had he been on site. He informed me that he and his wife just found out they’re having a boy. With his wife 5 1/2 months pregnant, he’s trying to spend a bit [...]
I continue to focus on how to more simply communicate what it is that we do and what it is that MVaaS solutions provide.
Tonight was another opportunity to experiment for me as I was at an awards ceremony mingling with the leading technology companies in the Boulder/Denver corridor at the Boulder County Business Reports’ Innovation [...]
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Ever heard of the airport security program called “CLEAR“? Clear’s customers give out personal identifying information to Clear to help expedite the security check process at airports.
CBS5 news in SanFrancisco reported a laptop containing some information of 33,000 applicants to the CLEAR program was likely stolen for [...]
I sat across the table from my friend as he stated “I had to let go of three people this past month based on what I’m seeing with your video. It’s heartbreaking to see what goes on on despite the generosity and training I put towards my staff”. He used the video to watch employee behavior quickly [...]
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How about recording and archiving of town meetings?
A town planning committee in Tremont, Maine installed a single camera video surveillance system with audio for just this purpose.
The purpose of the one camera system is to keep accurate records of their planning meetings according to the article.
Publishing such meetings on the Internet as [...]
This certainly comes as no surprise. Technomic’s revised economic forecast for full service restaurants in 2008 is a mere 1%, adjusted for inflation. This is down from nearly 3% just last year.
I own an SUV and wouldn’t dream of selling it in today’s market. What does one do until the market comes back? You make [...]
