CEO = Vision? Unlikely.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Those of you who might have read my previous post, will be familiar with my frustrations with the matrix organization and how the problem boils down to a lack of leadership . At the end of my post I came to this conclusion: "What comes to me from this ...

Organizational Entropy, The Matrix and a Lack of Leadership

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

There's a great conversation starter over on the Harvard Business Blog today on the matrix organization. I'm not sure how the matrix organization has stayed popular, but I think it's one of the big challenges with businesses today. Gill Corkindale writes in her piece how the idea of matrices became ...

Who Needs A Product

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

It's hard to find a company these days that's in it for the product. It's seems like online start-ups are the equivalent of commodities on an exchange; except instead of selling coffee, entrepreneurs are selling people, ideas, and very little of value. I can't tell you how many companies ...

The Profitability of a Process Owner

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

A business concept I've been ruminating on recently is the idea of how to make the most efficient and profitable service based business. The more I think about the idea the more I become convinced that there is a fundamental difference between being a process owner vs. a service ...