According to the New York Times and the AOL website, AOL has made the move they’ve been discussing for weeks now. From the New York Times: “AOL will stop marketing its highly profitable Internet access service and offer most of its main features free. As a result, it expects to lose more than half of… Read More
Earlier this month, Steve Farber stopped by and made a comment on one of The Change Resistors posts. As I result I visited his blog and ended up reading his first book, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership. The Radical Leap is a business parable about Extreme Leadership. Leap stands for: Love, Energy,… Read More
I often hear this question related to customers – the ones “outside” of the organization. What about inside our organizations? Do we approach our colleagues as customers to whom we market ideas? We all need to get things done. With few exceptions, we all need to work with other people to meet these goals.… Read More
Today in Change Resistors we’ll tackle some common leadership pitfalls. These behaviors cause leaders to underestimate the impact of change or inaccurately set organizational expectations. Skimming the Benefits An organization is a complex system. Change in one area has a habit of cascading through many areas, requiring you to adopt a holistic approach. As we… Read More
Recently, in contrast to many of Jack Welch’s practices, Fortune came out with its own list of “rules” that it feels offers a better “route to success for corporate America". “If applied correctly, Welch contends, his rules can work forever.” To quote the article: "Sorry, Jack, but we don’t buy it. The practices that… Read More
According to the New York Times, Jonathan Miller, AOL‘s chief executive, is presenting a proposal to Time Warner “…calling for a near halt in marketing for AOL’s 17-year-old Internet access service, price cuts for existing customers and thousands of layoffs…His [Mr. Miller’s] goal is to devote all of AOL’s energy into building its free Web-based… Read More
Yesterday in the Opinion section of the New York Times, Dean Baquet, editor, The Los Angeles Times, and Bill Keller, executive editor, The New York Times published an article about the responsibility of the press: When Do We Publish a Secret? The investigative process of considering several sources, analyzing information to look for anomalies, investigating… Read More
I was looking at the Fast Company blog today and they mentioned an article in the Wall Street Journal Online entitled Why Management Trends Quickly Fade Away. The article discusses a recent management study that appears in the April/May issue of the Academy of Management Journal (by Robert David and David Strang). While the article… Read More