The Decision Doctor®
Helping Outstanding Leaders Make Pivotal Decisions That Create Unprecedented Results
The Decision Doctor®
Helping Outstanding Leaders Make Pivotal Decisions That Create Unprecedented Results
Invisible Rip Tides Sink Marriages and Mergers
The business news is filled with stories of failed mergers or acquisitions. Recently, the dramatic loss of value of General Electric was blamed, in part, on a string of ill-advised acquisitions. Estimates of the rate of failure (failure to deliver the value described...
How To Avoid Strategic Mistakes
If your business is on the wrong road, the amount of operational control you exert will make little difference. Sometimes being on the wrong road is the result of a calculated risk and the best a leader can do is pull the plug, and quickly. The “fail fast, cheap and...
Leadership Lessons from Amazon’s Board
Amazon announced recently that they named Indra Nooyi to their board of directors, on the heels of adding Roz Brewer. These two outstanding leaders and executives are excellent choices for Amazon. It couldn’t have taken more than two minutes to think of them as...
How General Electric’s Former CEO, Jeff Immelt, Is Missing His Greatest Opportunity
Jeff Immelt recently published an article offering advice on leadership. The article was stunning, largely because it fails to acknowledge the dismal results posted by General Electric under his leadership. Nowhere does he show the slightest recognition that his...
What Tim Cook Knows That Facebook Doesn’t
Apple’s action to enforce its privacy policy became public recently when Facebook was found to be gathering data without permission. Through a program only available to trusted developers, Facebook was testing an app. Apple asserts that while doing so,...
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