by Gail Stout Perry | Oct 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
Innovation Isn’t Mysterious I was so excited – I could not believe that one of my professional students had agreed to show me around his workplace. You see, he was part of a skunkworks operation for a well-known technology company. I was giddy with anticipation. What...
by Gail Stout Perry | Oct 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
KPIs Are Essential (But Know Your Audience) I wanted to sink into the conference room floor. I was so embarrassed and was convinced that I must have just asked the stupidest question in the world. To this day, I cringe at the memory of standing there, in front of the...
by Gail Stout Perry | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
Change Management Matters The producer, her face pale, rushed up to me when the cameras stopped rolling and said, “You shouldn’t say that!” I was being interviewed for a segment on Bloomberg and was wracking my brain to remember what kind of word bomb I may have...
by Gail Stout Perry | Sep 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
I was asked to speak to a group of new college graduates and to share a few things that I wish I’d known earlier in my business career. What would have helped me to avoid major mistakes or to do a better job earlier on? This is part of a series of 4 blogs in which I...
by Terry Sterling | Aug 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
Welcome to a miserably hot, sweltering day at Yankee Stadium with the temperature sitting at 95° F in the shade and 90% humidity. It’s the bottom of the ninth and the Yankees are down by three runs. A collective sense of expectation can be felt throughout the stadium...
by Tim Johnson | Jul 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Communicate, Communicate, Communicate! This is the seventh installment in a blog series that discusses potential pitfalls that could hold you back from being fully successful in your strategic planning efforts. The first was ensuring that you have full leadership...