To capture the significance of a keystone, let’s first put it in perspective. A keystone in architecture is a central, wedge-shaped stone designed to support the weight of the arch. It distributes the forces acting upon it. When a load is applied to the arch, such as the weight of the structure, the arch exerts …
I spoke at a business gathering recently and had a chance to meet an individual on the Board of a large organization. This person has been on more than a dozen public company boards during the past 50 years. I later learned she’s been listening to management complain about issues that haven’t changed in five decades. …
Connect the dots!! What’s the first thing that pops into your head when you hear that? Perhaps you see a series of dots connected by lines that zigzag across a page. Do you see any gaps between the dots and the lines? An executive, Dennis, in a medium-sized diversified business, was asked “How do you …
“Leadership is acknowledging there is an elephant in the room.” Unknown Today I want to share a perspective on ‘management’, given the current state of the world of work. The Management Function, as I see it, is bigger than ‘risk’, a topic I have written about a lot. While risk is yet to be effectively …
“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times . . . . “A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, 1859. Nostradamus was one of the best-known prophets of the past. Here we are more than 160 years later, and those words still resonate. If not the economists, the journalists tell us …
