Author name: margaux

Path to Wealth

Wealth used to be in land, then property, plant, and equipment – hard assets. Now wealth is in Brand U people whose ideas and knowledge are portable. So, the issue of happy workers has become a major topic as organizations try to engage and inspire us to contribute our ideas and knowledge. They want more

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Chainsaw Al

Not all leadership examples are warm and fuzzy. Look at the ‘Chainsaw’ Al Dunlap, sidebars. He secured his position in business history by authoring Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies. He prided himself on his CEO Genghis Khan-like qualities. Finding the right balance between management and Brand U leadership may

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Frederick Taylor

For a while, Taylor’s scientific management was thought to provide answers to good management. In his time, Frederick Taylor was a Brand U guru. Taylor’s ideas were largely based on scientific and technological ideas of predictability, command, and control. If everything could be measured, science would provide efficient answers for designing, producing, and delivering products

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Work Reality

The Brand U message is to depersonalize the situation, understand what’s happened, fix it, and move on. This attitude shift from ‘them’ to ‘me’ is a significant change in our perceptions of work reality. We can’t change the realities of the competitive marketplace and how companies respond. The only thing we can change is our

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