Category Archives: Business Technology

Test Your Assumptions When Planning

It’s fall and the time of year when most business leaders head to the conference room for their annual planning process. For some it’ll involve new goals and strategies. For others it’ll just be a budget. However you approach it, … Continue reading

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Stop Being So Nice

Recently I’ve been working with a leader struggling to improve the performance of his employees and his company. He’d implemented a number of employee-friendly policies and reward systems, only to have them back-fire. What I discovered was that in his … Continue reading

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4 Pitfalls to Avoid When Planning

One of my favorite authors and management gurus, Peter Drucker, once said “The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.” Businesses left to natural devolution will move from order to disorder, from performing … Continue reading

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Breaking the Curse of MultiTasking

We know from personal experience that multitasking is not only unproductive but unhealthy. Yet, little has been done in most organizations to develop new and more effective methods of management and communication. The McKinsey article below lays down an urgent … Continue reading

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Our Business Is Business

I don’t believe that I have ever had the opportunity to comment on an article about myself…until now.  We were contacted by The Business News several months ago and they expressed a desire to do a feature on Foxwood.  The … Continue reading

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