Apple, Starbucks, Dell, and others are frequently lauded for their incredible successes. Yet each was on the verge of becoming failures…at points after their initial successes. Why?
Is it just Leadership? Or, was it Process-based?
What a debacle. What a failure to lead.
It does not matter whether you are a supporter of President Obama, or not. Really doesn’t. His failure to fully, properly resolve the ongoing ‘obama birth certificate’ issue demonstrates a failure to lead.
Now we know, that motorcyclists, like Leaders, are different people. Why is that? In short, what studies repeatedly show is, what we do more of, we get better at.
Motorcycling is healthy for you. Simply thinking about it stimulates your brain.
Product managers have a challenging role. They are the keeper of the dream for the product(s) they’re charged with giving direction to. They distill input from a range of sources; delve into research and marketing studies; look at competitors’ offerings; and, craft the dream, the strategy, for everyone to follow.
One of the most challenging groups to capture feedback from, are Internal Stakeholders. Here are some thoughts on how to be more successful at it.
By now, if you’ve tapped into almost any media source, you’ve heard of how the Costa Concordia ran aground, sank, and created a world of mayhem for all involved.
We all make mistakes. To do so is to be human. And, while tragic, that mistake is not itself where the real failure of leadership was demonstrated.
