Incentives to Retain Knowledge
1 July 2008
We often discuss how people are worth more than the cost of their hands. Their brains contain knowledge, creativity, and ideas which, leveraged well,…
Questions of Leadership
20 June 2008
Sometimes you just have to roll your eyes in wonder. The General Assembly of the United Nations voted this week to elect Miguel d'Escoto Brockman…
Management Improvement Carnival #35
14 May 2008
Evolving Excellence has the honor of putting together this edition of the Management Improvement Carnival. Past editions can be viewed here. * True…
Vigilant People
9 May 2008
A few days ago I received my latest issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review. Generally I don't have too high an opinion of academia-driven leade…
CEO Impact... and Pay
8 April 2008
CEO and general executive pay is a hot button issue. Several people, some of my favorite lean bloggers included, believe it is excessive and should b…
The Quandary of Sales Incentives
25 March 2008
I’ve always questioned the efficacy of sales incentives. Why are they needed? Why does Sales get them and generally not Engineering, Manufacturing,…
Excessive or Progressive CEO Pay?
27 January 2008
We've read a lot over the past few years about supposedly excessive CEO pay. Tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars paid to executives tha…
Why a to-do list just doesn't work.
15 January 2008
Jim Womack, founder of the Lean Enterprise Instituteand the man responsible for putting Lean on the map (at least in this country), recently wrote an…