E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

There is an old fairy tale about a goose that laid golden eggs. Eventually, the guy who owned him, killed him hoping to get the gold out, but found just a dead goose. Today I’ld like to consider the perspective of the goose. Goose thought that he would never be made in to soup, since [...]

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I am a huge fan of not for profit sector. I devote a lot of my time to charitable activities. I do believe that charitable organizations can become a more significant tool in shaping our world. Yet, today I will argue that charities are sometimes less effective than government. This is an argument for my [...]

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Many years ago I set out to understand what it means to be successful in business management. I wanted to reduce business management to something that can be done somewhat mechanistically. Yet what I discovered, along with a set of principles for successful management,  is that any decent sized business is going to be by [...]

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I am a huge fan of a democratic workplace – one where everyone can contribute and be heard. Yet I am leery of promoting democracy for the sake of democracy. Democracy is not the goal. Good governance is. A democracy run amok through ignorance or exploitation is just as deplorable as tyranny. Democracy is no different from a [...]

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This Tuesday I was at a presentation “Make the noise go away” that was put on by HNI and was really stumped by a question in the hallway as we were discussing what we just heard. The question had to do with the impact of the first in command being free to do what he [...]

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