by Carol Sanford | Aug 27, 2012 | Business Development
Open Culture website recently republished some interesting research on stress and its effect on people’s lives. The major point of the piece is that the higher you are in the hierarchy at work or the social strata, the better your health will be. The study shows that...
by Carol Sanford | Aug 6, 2012 | Business Development
We all need help sometimes. We need ideas and help clarifying them. We need help straightening out ideas about ourselves and the world and help living up to our potential as full human beings. So do organizations. Many of us do more than our job at work, seeking to...
by Carol Sanford | Jul 9, 2012 | Business Development
Vanity Fair’s exposé of Microsoft, published today, leaves me not knowing where to start. There are so many things wrong. If I owned stock in Microsoft (and I do not) I would sell it now. They have pretty much done everything it takes to stop innovation and growth in...
by Carol Sanford | Jul 4, 2012 | Business Development
The Responsible Entrepreneur versus The Social Entrepreneur The Fourth of July parade I just watched in my new hometown, abutting north Seattle, reminded me of something really important about America. We are entrepreneurial to our core. The rugged individual is in...
by Carol Sanford | Jul 25, 2011 | Business Development
This is the fourth is a six part series on the beliefs that lie behind feedback and alternatives to understanding how management practices can be improved. Here are the first three premises. Premise 1: Self-governing Behavior is Energy Effective The...