What’s the real cost?
April 7, 2015 9:03 am Leave your thoughtsOn this side of the table, it’s tempting to think that the cost of our product is written on the sticker. If the service or hardware or software or training... Read more
Author Archives for Nick Shepheard
What am I willing not to do?
April 6, 2015 9:43 am Leave your thoughtsThere’s the easy path. The do it myself path. The take control path. The do it my way or it’s the highway path. There’s the lazy path. The look on... Read more
What can I contribute?
April 5, 2015 4:12 pm Leave your thoughtsContinuously published since 1966, Peter Drucker’s The Effective Executive lays out five principles that lend any executive the ability to “get the right things done.” The language is from a... Read more
Willing or not?
April 4, 2015 4:48 pm Leave your thoughtsBusiness presents many opportunities to explore risk. What am I willing to do? Investing, assigning blue-sky budgets, hiring an unknown, betting the farm. It’s about personal or corporate appetite for... Read more
Where to have the discussion
April 3, 2015 6:09 pm Leave your thoughtsThere are some discussions that have to be made behind closed doors, away from the body of the team. Commercially sensitive things where you’re concerned about leaks, morale, or competitor... Read more