At all stages of a company’s life cycle, leadership continually asks the classic “Make or Buy” question. When should a company hire and develop expertise internally, and when does it…
One of the nice parts of being, along with Pat, the Wayne and Garth of the New Normal, is that I get pulled into more interesting conversations than I might…
The October issue of Fast Company contains yet another article on what the late Steve Jobs can teach us, titled, appropriately enough, “Oct 6, 2011 1:32 PM CDT
Paul Lippe’s discussion of the new Brad Pitt movie, Moneyball, and how that movie sheds light on value followed a discussion on statistics I listened to…
I just saw the movie Moneyball, profiling how Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland A’s, built a competitive team despite a payroll one-fourth that of rich teams like the…
Paul Lippe recently wrote The Rise of the Non-Firm Firms. The post generated considerable favorable comment, with the majority of the comment agreeing…
In 1995, when Microsoft rolled out the Windows operating system to great fanfare, Microsoft’s graphical user interface and other features appeared to many Apple aficionados to be so derivative of…
Whenever I have written about project management, process management or Lean and Six Sigma, I received considerable criticism from a number of people who feel that such concepts should not…
After arranging for the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, the next thing Thomas Jefferson did was hire Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore it. Because they were heading out…
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