TweetThe Philadelphia Stock Exchange appears to be in good hands under the leadership of CEO Meyer (Sandy) Frucher. I say this because of reading CIO Magazine’s interview with Mr. Frucher. When asked what his biggest IT-related lessons learned, Mr. Frucher responded: The biggest lesson is never to underfund it because it’s much harder to catch [...]
Entries from January 1st, 2007
From strategy+business
January 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Inspiration
Tweet From “Corporate Culture in Internet Time” (Q1 2000 issue of strategy+business): “Cultures aren’t designed. They simmer; they fester; they brew continually, evolving their particular temperament as people learn what kind of behavior works or doesn’t work in the particular company. The most critical factor in building a culture is the behavior of corporate leaders, [...]
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Clear leadership
January 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Inspiration
Tweet As part of my recent content pile herding I was reminded of “The Clear Leader” from the March 2005 issue of Fast Company magazine. Two quotes by Marcus Buckingham (with Bill Breen) come to mind: “Effective leaders don’t have to be passionate or charming or brilliant. What they must be is clear–clarity is the [...]
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Still the content pile herder…
January 21st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Content management, Life
TweetClearly the following images reveal that I have yet to fundamentally change my behavior when it comes to organizing and retaining content: This begs the question, “Why?” Why take the time to keep columns, paragraphs, articles, magazines, etc. in physical form? The truth is that I prefer softcopy to hardcopy, if for no other reason [...]
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Annual blog review
January 1st, 2007 · No Comments · Life, Site
TweetWhile I’ve never been a prolific blogger, I managed to find time to post at least once every month last year. However, total posts this year (64) were down from 2005 (74). I believe this was due to two primary factors: having a family with two kids now and having a high, sustained workload as a [...]
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