Earlier this week I posted 3 lessons for leading teams during “boom” cycles. Unfortunately, sometimes what goes up, must come down.
Since pain can drive home lessons in a way…
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Boom! Three Leadership Lessons When Business is Good.
I have had the opportunity to live through at least two boom/bust cycles in the Silicon Valley in my career – and I use the word “opportunity” with the following…
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Payments and Big Bangs
I’ve long been surprised by the great respect given to the field of economics. To be sure, it is an important field of study filled with incredibly smart, engaged people. …
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One More Reason Why Many Partnerships Fail
I was speaking at a payments conference in Manhattan last fall and we got the Q&A part of the evening. As the crowd got warmed up, and the questions became…
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Veterans Day
For Veterans Day, I am re-posting this column.
Although I often kid that Veterans Day is a day when military veterans across the country can’t get their mail, in…
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New Measurements in a New Era…
Last week, the New York Times published an op-ed piece from Harvard Business Professor Clayton Christensen. The column describes how there are multiple forms of innovations – Empowering, Sustaining,…
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