One of the most popular articles in today’s Wall Street Journal is “The Case for Letting Your Best People Go,” a riff on a prior op-ed by Dartmouth prof Sydney Finkelstein. The essential point is that the best bosses in corporate America invest in grooming their top employees, knowing full[…] Read On
The other day I came across an article debunking myths about franchise coaches. I didn’t even know there was such a thing but they apparently do exist. The writer, Rick Bisio, certainly appears to have the chops for it, having spent years in the franchise industry and written a popular[…] Read On
Wells Fargo finally finished an internal investigation into the overzealous sales culture that soiled the bank’s pristine reputation and ended the career of long-time chief executive John Stumpf. It took four of the bank’s directors six months to figure out what we already knew when the story first broke: The executive in[…] Read On
If you Google “Is the American dream dead?” you get upwards of 39 million results and some pretty provocative stories from just about every major news site. Turns out that Americans are pretty much split on the answer to that quintessential question. The most sobering stat is that half of those aged 18[…] Read On
There’s a popular show on Food Network called Chopped. Each week, four chefs battle each other and the clock by creating meals from a common set of mystery ingredients. There are three courses. After each course, three culinary experts judge the meals and the loser gets chopped. The last chef standing[…] Read On
Every morning, we wake up resembling a pile of dirty rags and somehow end up leaving the house looking (and hopefully smelling) presentable. And unless you have to wear some sort of dopy uniform, you probably wear clothes that in some way reflect your inner feelings. Don’t believe me? Ask[…] Read On
Leadership and entrepreneurship are all the rage, which sort of makes sense since they go hand in hand: Entrepreneurs start businesses and leaders run them, right? That’s what I used to think. The problem is that entrepreneurs and leaders have another thing in common: Neither is actually a job. And[…] Read On