Thought you might like to see the list of upcoming business seminars from REPUCOMM (me) in the next two months. Managing a consultancy or an organization’s reputation may be the most important asset a CEO and his or her team manages – as a good reputation helps a company to attract business, investors, hire and […]
Meetings …a place where they take minutes and waste hours! Meetings…It’s unfair to compare a meeting with a funeral. Funerals have a definite purpose! I am sure you have heard these comments and more. I was going to give some tips and decided against it. This poem just sums it up. The Committee – by […]
When I entered the business world, the flavor of the month decision-making model was the Kepner Tregoe problem solving & decision-making model. Soon that was replaced by a model from a book, that is if I can remember its name– something like the 1001 things I did not learn at Harvard Business School. And, just […]
December last year I facilitated a one day program at a conference called Strategic Employee Engagement. The lessons learned from interacting with the audience made me respond yesterday on the ODNet list to a rant on so called soft skills. My response to someone’s e-mail, evoked a number of requests for my PowerPoint presentation (Contact […]
I have just been quoted in an article in Norman Mark’s blog – ‘How Do You Determine Whether the Risk Management Process Is "Effective"? This was my response: Effective risk management is when each risk event identified is examined through the lens of both the direct loss to the firm and indirect losses that may […]
This was shared with me years ago and is now valuable to repeat. I have changed it, albeit slightly to take into today’s realities. I cannot recall who sent it to me, so do apologize to Anon. May you get a clean bill of health from your dentist, your cardiologist, your gastroenterologist, your urologist, your […]
For my holiday reading I am currently busy with John Grisham’s The Associate. In this book there is quite a detailed description of life in a huge law firm and the description of small cubicles as offices made me remember the analogy of work to a prison. Work or Prison? IN PRISON…you spend the majority […]
Results change when we change. We experts are always debating change – large systems scale change, etc. But let’s narrow it down to the jugular. If it is going to be, it is up to me! It is when individuals start to take responsibility that real change occurs. Look at Mandela, Ghandi, etc. We advise, […]
The following story was shared years ago with me (Caveat- I cannot remember who) but it is worthwhile considering the discussions at Copenhagen. In the year 2009, The Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in the USA and said, "Once again, the earth has become wicked and over populated and I see the […]