There is a saying called Parkinson’s Law: “Work expands to consume the available resources.” Which is to say all of your team will always be busy and all of your budget spent. The question is how do you ever do something new? Starting anything means stopping something, and that is often a lot harder than …

Eighty percent of executives say creating an “outside in” culture is a high priority for the future. Outside is where the good stuff happens. Buyers buy. Inventors invent. Competitors compete. An outward-focused organization has its eyes on the action and sees what’s happening now and what’s coming down the pipe. Equally important, it sees itself …

If you had it to do all over again, what would you change? It sounds like the ultimate idle question. Because you can’t turn back the clock, right? But what if it is not? What if you can? At some point in the life of a successful organization it becomes an “institution.” It is a …