Dateline: December 25, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Happy Holidays! If today is one of your holidays, we wish you a Merry Christmas. Today's thought is about gifts. Recently I found a thought provoking blog by Dr. Greg Alston, educator, entrepreneur and pharmacist. "People don't leave good companies," Dr. Alston wrote, … [Read more...]
What We Can Learn From Netflix
December 18, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 18, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. It's hard to argue with the success that Netflix has had. A recent Inc. column highlighted things Netflix did that we can learn from. The column, The Secrets Behind the Extraordinary Success at Netflix, was written by Justin Barios, but based on a LinkedIn blog by … [Read more...]
Coach, Command and Create
December 4, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 4, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. We all have worked for good, and bad, leaders. Recently, I ran across a blog by Dr. Greg Alston, educator and pharmacist, who nicely summarized what he calls the 3 Secrets to Successful Leadership. Dr. Alston suggests that Good leaders understand that modern employees are … [Read more...]
The Inspiring Leader in All of Us
November 13, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 13, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. At KP Partners, we love leadership-oriented readings that spark new ideas. Recently we ran across an article at Harvard Business Review that made us think differently about inspiring leaders. Nick Tasler, researcher and author of Domino: The Simplest Way to Inspire Change, … [Read more...]
Giving a Speech is Simply a Type of Conversation
October 30, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: October 30, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. One of my favorite people, Dr. Nick Morgan, is also an extraordinary speech coach who writes a very interesting blog, published on his Public Words website, for anyone who speaks publicly, or even attends speeches. Recently, Nick wrote a blog about How to Prepare for a Speech … [Read more...]
Data-driven business strategy
October 16, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: October 16, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Decision making is, of course, one of the key functions of senior leaders. Those with lots of experience are expected to make better decisions because of what they have seen, done and learned in their career. But increasingly we are hearing that data-driven decision making is … [Read more...]
Leadership 101: The Importance of In-Person Meetings
October 2, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: October 2, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's thought comes from a recent blog published at FastCompany.com titled "The Science of When You Need In-Person Communication," by author Laura Vanderkam. In her article, she suggests, Human beings had little ability to communicate with those who weren’t physically … [Read more...]
End Users are the Weakest Link
September 25, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: September 25, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. We continue on our Information Security month topics again this week. Are your end-users the problem? Dark Reading.com, an online community for information security professionals recently published a blog post by Tim Wilson, the Editor in Chief and co-founder. In it he … [Read more...]
Is Information Security a C-Suite Issue?
September 18, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: September 18, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This month we are talking IT security. A post in SecurityWeek, titled IT Leaders and Staffers Have Disconnect on Security Objectives, reported on a survey of over 1800 IT professionals conducted by independent research firm Ponemon Institute and Dell SecureWorks. One of the … [Read more...]
Is Shadow IT a Bad Thing?
August 21, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: August 21, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. IT managers hate shadow IT, or the purchase and management of IT services by business users outside of the IT organization. Why? Because, they think, users just don't know what they are doing when it comes to managing enterprise IT. Often, after purchasing their app, cloud … [Read more...]
