I read a very interesting article on how McDonald’s went “back to basics” with their “price and convenience” value equation. Rather than trying to reinvent the company based on the latest trends and competitive entries, McDonald’s made hard choices on pricing and thoughtfully embraced technology and food trends that complemented the company’s equity which made […]
Navigating Office Politics
Even the best managers cannot always ensure that their organizations are meritocracies. According to a recent article by the Harvard Business Review, office politics can corrupt the search for high-potential employees. The article postulates that there are six factors that prevent organizations from putting the right people in leadership roles: the politics of intuition, self-interest, […]
Improving Rural Health Care
Allison Suttle of the Harvard Business Review recently wrote an article about how technology has been implemented to help improve rural health care. Suttle cites an integrated EMR platform that has been rolled out to 45 hospitals already as a major key in technologies help. The EMR platform is programmed to integrate uniform, evidence-based treatment […]
The Mobile Payment Race is Heating Up
Alibaba and Tencent are two very large Chinese companies that you may not have heard of, rivaling American companies like Amazon and Walmart. These two Chinese entities are jumping out in front of today’s mobile payment boom, rapidly expanding in other Asian markets. China’s digital payment market is the largest in the world and Alibaba’s […]
Looking to Immigrants for Geniuses
Frank Bruni of the New York Times recently wrote an interesting article on how we should welcome immigrant in order to find geniuses. For example according to the MacArthur Foundation, of the 965 “geniuses” or otherwise known as MacArthur fellows, 209 were born outside the United States. That’s approximately 22% while a 2010 census report showed […]
Learning How to Coach Without a Voice
I recently came across this fascinating article in about Mark Rosen, a lifelong coach and mentor, who lost his ability to speak after being diagnosed with ALS. Rather than giving up or just moving on, he decided to adapt and found his coaching business to be much more successful. By communicating non-verbally, Mark learned how […]