Search Outside; Think Inside

You can’t sit at your desk and nextsense. I’m betting that resonates with most people, because it is obvious to most that looking inside one’s company is not likely to lead to the path of the corporate future. Yet, there are so many companies whose...

Talk About Driving Change!

When I was a young boy growing up in Detroit, you bought a new car every year. If you worked at General Motors, you had to drive their latest new model. Same for Ford and Chrysler. It seemed that every family in one way or another worked for the automobile industry....

Big Concerns With Big Data

Last October, I commented on the current trend of relying on “big data” to help in decision thinking [ see post ]. David Brooks, in a recent post for The New York Times, gave an interesting twist to the same area of discussion. He opens with the story a...