Can Your Employees Push Back? 3 Steps to Handle a Crisis Like a Fighter Pilot. By compartmentalizing and addressing a problem on a triage basis your business can emerge from disaster unscathed. Matthew Swyers is the founder of The Trademark Company , a Web-based law firm specializing in protecting the trademark rights of small to medium-size businesses. The company is ranked No. 138 on the 2011 Inc. 500. @TrademarkCo. People Crave Autonomy More Than Any Perk. How to Be Happier at Work: 10 Tips.
A marriage in supercomputing land: Cray acquires Appro for $25 million in cash. 9 November '12, 12:40pm Follow Two super-duper computing firms are to become one as Cray today announced that it has agreed to purchase Appro International, a privately-held developer of ‘scalable supercomputing solutions’, for approximately $25 million in cash.
The acquisition price assumes at least a $3.5 million net working capital balance at closing, sans debt. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and currently the #3 provider on the Top100 supercomputer list, according to the release, Appro has builds advanced high-performance computing (HPC) cluster systems. The company was founded in the early 1990s. Notably, Intel acquired Cray’s high-performance computing interconnect program back in April 2012. Comments Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray: The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals - Vijay Govindarajan. By Vijay Govindarajan | 10:00 AM October 22, 2012 Gary Hamel and C.K.
Prahalad’s 1989 HBR article “Strategic Intent” brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. As an idea, strategic intent is about setting a bold and ambitious goal, out of all proportion to a firm’s current resources and capabilities. Strategic intent takes the long view: the act of such intent is to operate from the future backward, disregarding the resource scarcity of the present. How to Minimize Your Biases When Making Decisions - Robert F. Wolf. Strategy & Planning Are Not Optional. The late Alex d'Arbeloff, founder of Teradyne, an electronics equipment supplier, introduced me to the term the "walking dead.
" At the time, I was working for a company he had invested in, one that he put into this category. He explained it like this: A "walking dead" company is one that brings in enough revenue to keep going but never enough to take off. Since then, I've come to understand how companies end up in this awful predicament. In a desire to stay afloat, they chase revenue, any revenue. That means they end up taking on work that isn't particularly strategic.
Walking dead companies think that the problem is cash. Engagement Isn’t Enough. As leaders, we often miss critical indicators that can improve the likelihood of organizational and personal success.
Consider the ubiquitous employee satisfaction survey, which is usually administered once a year and, as long as the scores are respectable, crossed off the corporate must-do list. Typically, these surveys measure employee engagement levels. But as Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton explain in the excerpt below, that’s not enough. They rightly contend that employee energy and enablement are as essential to high levels of performance as engagement.
As I think back on projects that I have been associated with, it is clear that every success and failure was due not only to the level of engagement among team members but also to their energy level and the degree to which they felt enabled (or empowered) to achieve their goals. PACE Model for Cash Flow. In the first three articles, How to Weed Out Apathetic Employees, How to Silence Negative Employees, andHow to Keep the Momentum Going, we have been pretty hard on the team.
By now you may have brought in new talent as well as identified the talent that you want to keep. This next phase is tough. Remember that motivation comes from inside and as leaders all we can do is create an environment where people can motivate themselves. SimpleFeed - RSS Publishing and Feed Analytics for Marketing, eCommerce, Financial Services and Media & Publishing. Marginally subversive. I came across this slideshow on reception theory on SlideShare on Reception Theory.
And it was a very interesting, clear read. As a media planner, I have been exposed to a number of 'frameworks' that tried to explain how audiences access, process, and relate with information that they encounter about brands. The one that I found most interesting was this chart (which I think is overused but still relevant though in need of further improvements to take into account how audiences have evolved). In essence, the above suggests that the communication effectiveness is at the middle - where the message is delivered by the right medium to the its intended target audiences whilst they are in the right mindset. Imagine seen an ad about romantic getaways during the upcoming Valentine's Day on late-night TV whislt nurturing a broken heart.
Things that will make you go hmmm. The state of planning 2010 - experimentalist. Finance. The 1% Rule. Twenty Lies You'll Hear on a Job Interview: 11. "I'm Not the Principal Decision-Maker" Twenty Lies You'll Hear on a Job Interview: 9. "We Don't Have Office Politics Here"