This post by James Rosebush was featured in The Christian Science Monitor on May 16th, 2012. Early one morning, in Ronald Reagan’s first year in office, I walked briskly with him from the Oval Office to the motorcade on the circular drive of the South Lawn. I was scheduled to take my first [...] Read more »
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Why Great Leaders Are in Short Supply
FridayMar 30,2012
This post by James Rosebush was featured on the Harvard Business Review’s HBR Blog Network. http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/03/why_great_leaders_are_in_short.html We’re living with something of an irony right now regarding leadership. On the one hand, the topic has never been more studied and written about; my recent Google search for leadership research by academies and institutes returned some 375,000 [...] Read more »
Leadership and Followership
WednesdayDec 29,2010
It seems that corporate culture is no longer a top priority and a contributor to productivity and that individualized differentiated working styles in independent cubicles or from remote workstations is the norm. No one wants to be lead anymore nor do they know exactly how to operate as a team. In a current corporate turn [...] Read more »
Leader As Healer
MondayJun 14,2010
A corporate body is not unlike what we call our physical, personal body. It needs a regiment of wellness. This would include good nutrition (feeding new ideas),exercise (research, brainstorming, mental mind games ) cleanliness and protection from intruders (openness, good communication and regular assessments of the relationship of the organization to constituents). The healthy body would [...] Read more »
Growth and Re-tooling
MondayFeb 1,2010
Every company and organization needs to be re-invented every eighteen months. Count the cost of not doing this. Audience and customers are constantly changing and shifting and you need to be nimble enough to pick up on the nuances and subtlety of consumer shifts. Customers are buffeted by economic conditions, external and internal, the manipulative [...] Read more »
Strategy and The Idea Factory
MondayJan 4,2010
Strategy is idea-dependent. That’s why GrowthStrategy, Inc. is an IDEA FACTORY. Great strategy is fueled by creative ideas and new views. If sales or any aspect of business is not moving get a new view, stir the muddy river bed, look at your business in a new way. See you customer in a new way. [...] Read more »
The Strategy Light Bulb
SaturdayNov 28,2009
The question, “What is strategy, anyway?” was answered for me this week in an exciting way. I was involved in a planning session with an engineering company that wants to exploit Stimulus money. The debate was focused on how to best coral the most funding in order to meet public sector sales targets. This is when the “Strategy Light [...] Read more »