I try to make my Friday PPILL about leadership. Given the circumstances and being Friday today, I cannot write about anything else, but the British monarchy. Queen Elizabeth II passed away yesterday at 96. During her 70-year reign, she has been criticized, applauded,...
This is one of the smartest phrases I ever heard, uttered by the one and only Malcolm Gladwell, of “Tipping Point” fame. There is so many levels to it. With his sharp power of analogy, and his uncanny ability to make the obscure obvious, Malcolm is definitely one...
When things are taken out of our sight, that doesn’t necessarily fix things. We are just ignoring them. And most of the time it just postpones things, because when things are worth making them disappear, they usually have a knack for coming back. Plastics. Debt. The...
We heard it: “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” This is certainly true in politics, where the most unexpected crowds can be made to come together to fight a (many times made up!) common enemy. But can this be seen in other areas of life? In business, for example,...
Transforming operations and a supply chain is a difficult task that demands comprehensive organizational changes and strategies that can continue to deliver value. One common mistake that organizations incur onto, is biting off more than they can chew when it comes to...
The journey to anything worth getting to is never linear. When climbing a steep mountain, the trail turns into a switchback. On a sailboat, by going in a Zig-Zag, we can sail against the wind. And even though we understand these things, yet we expect things to go...
