As a business leader, you know that an organizational chart is more than just a piece of paper outlining your company's hierarchy. It's the strategic foundation of your business structure and a critical component of your strategic business development plan. But when was the last time you took...
Recently, I realized that I’ve been seeing my role of Integrator™ all wrong—and it changed everything about my work. In the fall I attended the Integrator Mastery Forum (IMF), led by Mark Winters, coauthor of Rocket Fuel. I arrived at the full-day workshop thinking...
Some ideas need a second consideration. Jon Gertner’s book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, is one of those reads that takes a culturally-presumed evil and flips our assumptions on their head: maybe a monopoly can be a good...
It’s official: Virtual teams are legit. More and more people are working remotely every year. Nine million people in the U.S. work from home at least half of the time. Almost 50% of all companies have plans to increase their virtual teams, and 37 percent of...
Ah, spreadsheets. So easy, so convenient. And so frustratingly difficult. If you’re tracking company data, you probably have a love/hate relationship with spreadsheets. They’re easy to use, but they can also be inconvenient and annoying. It’s a paradox, yet often...
You’ve rolled out Bloom Growth to multiple departments, and everyone in your company is getting on board. But as more departments are being added, it’s becoming a challenge to make sense of it all. You need a way to view and organize all of the metrics and...