by Mike Cobb | Dec 7, 2016 | Leadership Culture and Personal Development
In a recent article I touched on the role “tribal knowledge” plays in the decision-making process in many organizations (Do You Think It Or Do You Know It). Early in my career I had the opportunity to head up a product development group for a major chemical company....
by Mike Cobb | Oct 18, 2016 | Risk and Uncertainty
A couple of weeks ago I posted a short article on how companies can prepare for and respond to supply chain disruptions (Hanjin Revisited). This was a follow-up to an earlier article on the Hanjin bankruptcy and its impact on businesses globally (Hanjin and Turmoil in...
by Mike Cobb | Oct 3, 2016 | Risk and Uncertainty
September 30th. It’s been a month now since Hanjin Shipping filed for bankruptcy. So what has happened over the past month? A lot … but not enough. A little over a week into the chaos U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John Sherwood granted the company provisional protection from...
by Mike Cobb | Aug 31, 2016 | Entrepreneurism Innovation Creativity
My professional life (if you don’t count selling Christmas cards door-to-door when I was a kid and, for a very short while, the most amazing and the last pair of scissors one would ever need to buy) began when I got out of graduate school. I made the transition from...
by Mike Cobb | Jan 13, 2016 | Risk and Uncertainty
It seems that almost every day there’s a new book or article about risk-tolerant versus risk-averse organizations. These authors tell us how it is through taking risks that we change and grow, both as individuals and as companies. However, the most successful,...
