Pop quiz: If you answered with the usual and classic wisdom, you said 10%. And you’d be wrong. According to Amishi P.Jha, author of Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, you are actually using 100% of your brain! She is...
Author: Amanda Blue
Beware of Marketing Hype In The Real World
Often, the marketing people tell a different tale than the operations people can or are willing to deliver. This is a problem because customers expect a certain experience based on what the marketing people have sold but are disappointed when...
Airlines Are The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Whenever my social media people want me to write a blog post, I only have to look to the latest airline blunders for content. This time the content comes courtesy of American Airlines. You would think these days the airlines...
The Really Scary Part
I was recently asked to comment on a new university curriculum on entrepreneurship. The program was excellent, covering all the functional, procedural bases. But it did lack two essential ingredients to entrepreneurial success: willingness to put everything on the line...
The Question Behind the Question
In my upcoming book, Crossroads of Catastrophe: How Great Organizations Lose Their Way and How To Keep Yours On The Right Track, I emphasized the importance of questions. Not just the importance of questions, but the importance of the right questions...
Trick or Treat
Okay, I just couldn’t resist a post this month about Halloween. But I am not writing about the usual “have a fun and safe Halloween” posts that you will see all over social media. Does anyone read those posts? Does...
In Memoriam
In Memoriam: Lowell “Jake” Jacobson It was with a heavy heart I learned of the passing of Jake. He was a rail industry icon and hero. You can read about him at the following link: https://www.progressiverailroading.com/short_lines_regionals/article/From-the-Editor-In-memoriam-Jake-Jacobson–64510 What the article doesn’t mention...
In Memoriam
It was with great sadness I recently learned of John’s passing. He was a good friend, a trusted advisor, and one of the greatest business minds of our time. After a 10-year stint as a Harvard professor, John went on...
Bad Attitudes Leave Clues
I am always confounded as to the difference in the performance, and attitude of two employees. If you look at any employee group, the chances are they all share the same characteristics. They have the same supervisor. They work under...
6 Leadership Lessons in a Pandemic
As leaders, we were forced to face a harsh reality as the pandemic shut down businesses and disrupted lives this past March. There were, and still are, so many unknowns that have caused anxiety in our employees and leadership. I...
What’s Your Point?
Here is my point. You are wasting tons of money with pointless advertising and marketing. Notice I did not ramble on and on before I got to the point. If I did, I would have lost you. Advertising is very expensive....
How to make cultural changes to your organization.
Were you forced to reevaluate your company culture over the past few months? Did you like what you discovered? Mostly all businesses today have been taking a look inward as a result of the pandemic. Creating a stellar work-from-home and...