Excellence

Kaizen, Fitness, Agile, Simplicity, and The Energized Enterprise

September 6, 2012
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ME Interview with Marc Strohlein Marc Strohlein is Principal of Agile Business Logic, and has been a COO, CTO and CIO at companies including Gartner Group, Dataquest and Outsell Inc. His passion is unlocking energy and growth in individuals, teams and organizations. I worked for Marc at Outsell, where, among many other things, he led […]

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Big Fish, Little Bird

July 17, 2012

A few months ago I saw the movie Big Fish for the first time. It really moved me; it was delightful in the most imaginative yet realistic way. It’s about a boy, and a man, who lives big each day of his life. He lives joyously in his mind and thus in his reality, no […]

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Be What You Aspire to Be

July 16, 2012
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ME Interview with Jamie Lewis, former CEO and Research Chair at Burton Group About Burton Group Jamie Lewis led Burton Group, an IT research and advisory services company, for 20-plus years. Burton Group analysts and consultants delivered objective, in-depth and technical insights. Burton Group was solely driven by enterprise technologists needs and was acquired by […]

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What do Adam Carolla, Oprah Winfrey and Taco Bell have to do with Excellence?

June 14, 2012
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Not one but two references to Taco Bell caught my attention this week: one from Oprah Winfrey, the other from Adam Carolla. (An unlikely pair, to say the least.) I was surprised since I’ve never been a follower of either, and haven’t dined at Taco Bell since their “light” taco. Carolla and Oprah, each in […]

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All Things Excellent: Sebastian Nadal, Son Rafa and Seven French Open Titles

June 13, 2012

I was deeply touched by Sebastian Nadal’s visceral response to his son’s win at this week’s French Open. The father showed ebullient happiness and love for his son Rafael, who had just won his record-setting seventh French Open title. Even if the stats made it seem that Rafa was certain to win in Paris – […]

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