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Winston Wolf: an Effective Executive
Winston Wolf can teach us about Management and Leadership I was in graduate school when Quentin Tarantino blew our minds with his successful film “Pulp Fiction”. As a Generation Xer, this film hit on all the zeitgeist buttons we had recently become aware we all shared. It was hard hitting, brutal, gritty, graphic, violent, and […]
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Data is not a bi-product of your business: Stop treating it as one
Perspective I often encounter good people struggling in their jobs to fulfill their most basic responsibilities. This might be closing a deal to up or cross sell to an existing customer, booking an order, fulfilling customer orders, providing basic customer support, and billing. These professionals, expecting these to be established or easily matured capabilities, instead […]
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‘Skill Gap’ Completely Misses the Point
Perspective CNN posted an article this fall reporting that “America has 5.8 million job openings*”. It proceeded to explain that ‘experts’ see this as not just an indication of economic resurgence, but warned of a ‘skill gap’. I am not clear on why such a view would be the conclusion here. I see something different […]
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Resisting Cloud Adoption May Be an Evolutionary Disadvantage
Perspective It is all always interesting to watch as a new idea progress into a disruptive and then destructive one. Today we are witnessing several trends which seem to be ushering in nothing short of Copernican changes across many industries. IoT, robo-advice, block chain, bitcoin, robotics, personalized medicine, self-driving cars, Smart Grids and Smart Cities. […]
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Key Behavioral Attributes of a Good Consultant
Insight Having excellent subject matters expertise (SMEs) does not naturally predispose one to be an excellent consultant, nor vice versa. These are some thoughts on the key attributes of a good consultant Affinity: You have achieved and demonstrate a ‘natural’ liking for the client, a relationship that is not forced. You can sympathize with the client, you […]