Law of Unintended Consequences

Recently, I had a negative experience with one of my favorite cloud services – Dropbox. Dropbox is one of the most mature of the cloud storage services, and the apps are on every platform I can think of. It is also pre-integrated with many if not most of the...

Is Management a Science or Art

Some say management is a science because like other scientific pursuits, there are predictable patterns that we can see, touch, and feel. Perhaps most important of all, it can be proven wrong – which is the hallmark of science. Like finding the nth digit to the...

Why Negativity is Really Awesome

Cases proving the value of in-house critics, dissenters and whistle blowers demonstrate that “groupidity”, a special form of groupthink wherein we collectively become willing to take risks we individually recognize as stupid, is alive and well. Since most new ideas...

Big Lie of Strategic Planning

Despite the importance of strategic planning in business, most executives fear this process because they think failure will ruin their career. As a result, they construct a time-consuming comprehensive plan to govern the business’ activities. Unfortunately, this...