HIT Piece 8.30.2016

If you want to be known, it’s not enough to build a great product. If you want to be heard, it’s not enough to do something that you call marketing. If you want to be acknowledged, it’s not enough to sell constantly, and be an interruptive presence in your customers’ Read more…

[Opinion] It’s Up to MBAs to Save the World

Business students—modern day, Internet savvy, native users of the information superhighway we’ve all built for the last twenty or so years—can save the corporate world. The unfortunate thing is that somewhere along the way to cashing out in a cushy consulting position, or advancing in organizations by whose culture they Read more…

[Strategy] The Three C’s

Clarity is the quality of being clear and understandable. Candor is the quality of being open and honest in expression. Not transparent, not vulnerable, but truthful. Courage is the quality of doing something that is frightening. The character Mattie Ross in the Charles Portis book True Grit, published in 1968, Read more…

[Advice] Evolving Cultural Sensibilities and ADR

As the economic, cultural, and spiritual forces that used to bind us together continue to refragment from overarching macro-cultures to indispensable micro-cultures, alternative dispute resolution practitioners must take notice. Overarching macro-culture was driven by communal events, television, economic stability, and overarching cultural “norms” that allowed people to engage in conflicts Read more…

HIT Piece 8.23.2016

Courage, awareness of trends, and thinking outside of your own box, work well when pushing innovation and getting new ideas at the individual level, but are tough to get to scale past just a few people. Group think, social proofing, ego driven statements, fear based responses, body language cueing and Read more…

HIT Piece 08.09.2016

The thing is, we’re not building for the future we want, we’re building for the future we think will keep us the most comfortable. The thing is, when the status quo is upended by events we did not expect, we react with defensiveness, because our identity is wrapped up in Read more…