“There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” via. This expands on one of Mike’s favorite sayings to use with clients: “the unaimed arrow never misses.” We use it to help clients understand another Army maxim of failing to…
Read MoreIn this article, David Allen of GTD fame discusses the office hardware that supports his implementation of GTD. And by hardware, I don’t mean computers, I mean the aluminum, wood, and plastic contraptions and tools that populate our offices, that create the environmental backdrop for our workdays. We’ve come across a similar analysis of office…
Read MoreWe thought we’d get two short posts out together rather than torture them into longer posts. Chairman/CEO split. A Breakingviews.com piece published in the WSJ’s May 10-11 Weekend Edition described Wachovia’s recent split of the Chairman and CEO roles. Appparently, they decry the notion that it’s being framed as a punishment of sorts for the…
Read MoreA few pieces are detailing Carl Icahn’s foray into Yahoo and his decision to take up the proxy fight Microsoft appears to have abandoned. This Dealbook article gets my vote today because of this quote from Icahn: It is unconscionable that you have not allowed your shareholders to choose to accept an offer that represented…
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