Corporate culture is an incredibly powerful factor in a company’s long-term success. No matter how good your strategy is, when it comes down to it, people always make the difference. As Peter Drucker so wisely stated: Culture eats strategy for breakfast Strategy is rational and logical Strategy, at its core, is rational and logical, clear …

Time Magazine recently rated collaborative consumption as one of the “10 ideas that will change the world”. Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in traditional sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping reinvented through network technologies on a scale and in ways never possible before. From enormous marketplaces such as eBay and Craigslist, to …

Big companies start off with verve and energy and aspiration and incredible values that fuel their growth, then grow to the point that they’re no longer in tune with what really moved the enterprise forward in the first place. It happened to McDonald’s, it happened to IBM, and it even happened to Apple and Nokia. …

This may come as a shock but most employees do not leap out of bed in the morning excited by the prospect of making more profit for their organization that day. Profit may motivate senior executives but it rarely does so for the front-line unless they are shareholders too. No, what motivates employees is feeling …