by Constance | Jun 14, 2019 | Business Growth, Leadership
People think professors are smart but often impractical – and sometimes that’s true. The best teachers simplify the complex and help us see how to use knowledge in pragmatic ways. Dr. Frances Frei does precisely that. She is a professor at Harvard Business...
by Constance | Apr 4, 2019 | Blog, Leadership
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...
by Constance | Jan 10, 2019 | Blog, Leadership
We are now just over a week into a new year and, already, many have found their resolve waning. No matter what the resolutions, it takes little time for the barriers that we thought were speed bumps to loom large and cast a shadow that creates doubt. That said, most...
by Constance | Nov 8, 2018 | Leadership, You Mean I Must Change?
Why Vulnerability Isn’t A Universal Good Most everyone has experienced a colleague or boss who shares too much. Three lanes outbound, one lane inbound. How about the colleague who loops around the same beltway, over and over and over but can’t keep the process to...
by Constance | Oct 29, 2018 | Leadership
Do you believe that people can achieve whatever they set their minds to? Do you believe that if you work hard, you will be rewarded? Do you believe that where there is a will, there is a way? Your answers to these questions reveal a mindset. Mindset is a set of...
by Constance | Sep 13, 2018 | Leadership
The chief medical officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Baselga, is well and truly in the hot seat. In the past few days, it was reported that Baselga received payments from healthcare and pharmaceutical companies for work as an advisor or board...
