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Your eye of the needle: Do you worry over bottlenecks?

Berkonomics

Think for a minute whether there is any process or person that could be classed as the eye of the needle in your organization. Such behavior removes individual employee incentive to innovate and lessens the chance that her direct reports will grow through learning to manage and in turn delegate effectively. The lesson learned.

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Wow! Are your relationships important!

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] I am chairman of the Technology Division of the ABL Organization, a roundtable organization with multiple CEO roundtables of about twelve members each, meeting monthly. It is from over a thousand of these CEO presentations over the years that I attempt to make the following generalities.

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Are you at risk for tech killing your job?

Berkonomics

And the prime motivators of this massive destruction are the same class of entrepreneurs and innovators that have done it before. Email readers, continue here…] By 2024, at least ninety percent of the global population will have regular Internet access. Thought so. That is six-tenths of one percent of the world’s population.

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Let’s talk about whistle-blowers

Berkonomics

Assuming that a corporate whistle-blower is not tooting about you individually, such a class of people have been granted protections under the law and serve a function that needs to be acknowledged. Motive of the whistle-blower. That’s a subject for a separate discussion, and there are civil penalties as recourse for such proven behavior.

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So, what’s a company board good for, anyway?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] Generative thinkers are relentless in asking questions that get to the core of an idea, often making the originator think more deeply about the effects over a longer period of time. These are generative thinking questions. Generative. or “How about the public relations impact?” This is not easy.

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Will tech kill your job?

Berkonomics

And the prime motivators of this massive destruction are the same class of entrepreneurs and innovators that have done it before. Email readers, continue here…] Yes, Amazon is partially to blame. Thought so. We are in a decade of creative destruction that will affect most everybody. Last year, Amazon employed 145,800 workers.

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Eye of the needle? Why worry over your bottlenecks.

Berkonomics

Think for a minute whether there is any process or person that could be classed as the eye of the needle in your organization. A CEO once told me that she was ‘the eye of the needle’ in her organization, purposely controlling quality of service and making sure all of her direct reports let her know of each .