Congress Votes For Rudeness With Their Thumbs
March 2, 2009 by Miki Saxon
I am revolted by the lack of respect shown by so many of our Congressional (so-called) leaders.
Warning: If you don’t like rants feel free to navigate to a different (brilliant) post on this blog, because what follows is definitely a rant—in spite of the lack of excessive profanity and personal attacks.
I prefer to read the full text reprints of items such as Obama’s State of the Union speech because of my hearing, so, thankfully, I didn’t witness the disgusting performance of our sworn ‘leaders’ who chose to text and tweet throughout Obama’s speech.
And my anger has nothing to do with …read more
Avoiding A Leadership Bubble
January 23, 2009 by Miki Saxon
About two-thirds of the way through a January 7th CNBC interview with President Barack Obama when the conversation turned to his Blackberry, Obama talked about his reasons for wanting to keep it, even in the face of vehement opposition. (The bolding is mine.)
“What it has to do with is having mechanisms where you are interacting with people who are outside of the White House in a meaningful way. And I’ve got to look for every opportunity to do that–ways that aren’t scripted, ways that aren’t controlled, ways where, you know, people aren’t just complimenting you or standing up when you …read more
How to improve your life
October 6, 2008 by Miki Saxon
“You don’t report to your BlackBerry.
Schedule inviolate white space.” — Jim Collins
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Getting to sustainable, controllable, disruptive innovation
September 16, 2008 by Miki Saxon
By Wes Ball. Wes is a strategic innovation consultant and author of The Alpha Factor – a revolutionary new look at what really creates market dominance and self-sustaining success (Westlyn Publishing, 2008) and writes for Leadership turn every Tuesday. See all his posts here. Wes can be reached at www.theballgroup.com.Why can’t every innovation be “disruptive?” Why can’t more companies come up with disruptive innovations? And why is it that many innovations that are disruptive only lay the groundwork for another competitor to take control and become the leading innovator?
I believe the answer is in the focus we place upon innovation.
All useful …read more