Vision Masters: Be Prepared to Disrupt and to be Disrupted – A Call to Action
Vision Masters . . . to arms! You’ve got to master the science of Vision Mastery or fail. Read on if you are a CEO, Founder, Partner. This week’s blog applies the lessons of Super Bowl 2019 to this challenge. Read on and you’ll get just how big the challenge you face really is: I’ve […]
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Decision-Making for Vision Masters – The Importance of Agility (Part II)
In my last post, “Decision-Making for Vision Masters – A Major Factor in Company Growth“, I suggested that frequent, committed decision-making was integral to business success. I introduced you to the OODA loop process, developed by military strategist Colonel John Boyd — observe, orient, decide, act — which has long been employed by military and […]
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Decision-Making for Vision Masters – A Major Role in Company Growth
You’re probably faced with important decisions daily. Such is the life of a vision master leading(the CEO or Founder) a growing company. But let me ask you this . . . How many do you make and commit to fulfilling on every day? How many do you table, perhaps resolving to decide tomorrow, or get […]
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Mission Impossible – Elon Musk’s Secret to Great Achievement
Happy New Year to Each of You — here’s to a prosperous 2019! The interest in my recent posts about the travails of Elon Musk leads me to believe that you, like me, find this iconic entrepreneur both fascinating and vexing. Whether it is the success of Space X or the struggles of Tesla, we […]
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When will Sheryl Sandberg leave Facebook?
In my recent blog about Silicon Valley predictions for 2019, I proposed that Sheryl Sandberg will leave Facebook to take the president’s position at Apple, with Jony Ive at the helm as CEO. This would be a position parallel to that of Brad Smith at Microsoft under tech visionary Satya Nadella. Now here’s a prediction […]
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2019 Silicon Valley Predictions – Who Stays and Who Goes?
2019 silicon valle predictions who stays and who goes What’s about to happen with the leaders of Tesla, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google? The first reader who points out to me that Amazon is not actually located in Silicon Valley will get the booby prize of being totally ignored. From everyone else, I’ll reply to […]
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An Open Letter to Paul Allen Heirs
To the Heirs and Peers of Mr. Paul Allen: Our world lost a hero when Paul Allen passed on October 15th. Mr. Allen was probably best known for being a co-founder of Microsoft and as both owner and avid fan of his beloved Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle Seahawks. At the time of his death, […]
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Sheryl Sandberg: It’s Time for YOU to “Lean In”
Dear Sheryl, You’ve done an amazing job steering Facebook as COO. Now I have a request. Your partnership with Mark Zuckerberg is clearly working well, even through the ups and downs of managing a very large organization serving more than a billion customers. As I’ve discussed with my readers for several years, the […]
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Saving Tesla by Observing SpaceX
Saving Tesla starts with understanding Elon Musk and his style of management. This short video lays out the key takeaways from this article. In the first in this series, we’ve taken a deep look at the distinct ways that one man, Elon Musk, is running two large companies that are on very different trajectories […]
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The Two Faces of Elon Musk – SpaceX’s Secret Weapon (Part 2)
Tesla is failing, SpaceX is surging. As I wrote in my last post, it is the best of times and the worst of times for Elon Musk, founder of both companies. In that post, I proposed that a major reason Elon Musk’s two businesses are getting such different results is that Musk has a very […]
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