Building a Culture of Grownups

If you want to build a culture of grownups in your organization, instead of telling them what they can’t do – why not tell them what they can do? Read more

Custom Internet Domains (.yourcompany)

How will This Affect Your Strategy?

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, (ICANN) is opening up its Top Level Domain, (TLD) registration for custom naming. The TLD is the most right portion of an Internet Protocol (IP) address, the most common of which is .com. TLD’s are now being opened up to customization. What this means is that you can apply for a custom TLD that may be specific to your company or organization (this option is not yet available to individuals). For example, IBM could apply to register .ibm or Apple could apply to register .apple. Read more

Untangling The Grid

Until its penultimate day, I had grown to hate the Grid program.

Twelve hours a day with a team of strangers debating the psychological politics of hypothetical people and hypothetical scenarios. Having to parse a spectrum of concocted grays into a rigid numerical weighting system. Mapping and discussing personality types is an attractive idea, but splitting imaginary hairs to such a technical degree seemed almost designed to mock the complexity of real life. Read more

Run A Business Or Run Aground, The Difference A Strategic Plan Can Make

While the details are still a bit sketchy as to exactly how the Italian ship Costa Concordia ended up sideways with 150 foot gash in its hull, BIG saw the opportunity to compare navigating a multi-ton cruise-liner to the running of a business. Here are five parallels we found: Read more

Going from Resolution to Execution

When the calendars flipped over from 2011 to 2012, were you thinking of any new year’s resolutions and all the changes you were going to make this year? Read more

How sustainable is CEO compensation?

We were struck by an article done by CBC this past week that brought to light the obscene pay days of Canada’s top CEO’s. According to the article, by the lunch hour of the first working day of the year, they will have earned the entire annual salary of the average Canadian! The top 100 CEO’s averaged $8.38 million last year in dramatic contrast to the $44,366 averaged by the rest of us. Read more