by Russ Allison | Mar 25, 2016 | Company, Customers, Solutions
Every year right around now, business-oriented news sources like to offer statistics on the loss of productivity related to March Madness, office pools, and other similar activities. I’ve blogged my thoughts on this before. But just when I was thinking about...
by Russ Allison | Feb 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
I just finished reading a recent HBR piece that tells a story about a manager who holds a meeting of 20 contributors and outlines a big initiative. When the manager asks for feedback around potential issues, the contributors do not voice many important concerns....
by Russ Allison | Oct 1, 2014 | Company, Customers, Solutions
Summer has barely ended and yet it seems that, despite all of the traditional vacation time during this season, worker burnout is a topic still on the minds of many. First there was a great HBR blog post that makes several good points about the disconnect between the...
by Russ Allison | Mar 21, 2014 | Company, Customers, Products, Solutions
I found this article at NPR about many different groups of professionals that are ditching PowerPoint for various reasons. This is a movement in many fields that has legs, I think, and something that every leader should consider. I can’t fully commit to calling...
by Russ Allison | Nov 9, 2013 | Customers, Solutions
Every so often a client or colleague brings up some of the work represented by Tony Schwartz (best introduction is probably the 2010 HBR article “The Productivity Paradox”). The core idea in both this article and a previous one by the same author is the importance...
