by Mike Cobb | Apr 19, 2017 | Leadership Culture and Personal Development
Back in the mid- to late-nineties I did a lot of work in South America. While in the throes of working through the terms of a business arrangement, my Colombian business partner made …
by Mike Cobb | Apr 12, 2017 | Leadership Culture and Personal Development
A decade and a half ago, Jim Collins wrote Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t. Most of us…
by Mike Cobb | Mar 30, 2017 | Leadership Culture and Personal Development
While in graduate school, I would occasionally take the forty-five-minute drive to Conyers, Georgia, just…
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 | Nov 16, 2016 | Leadership Culture and Personal Development
Years ago I advised a CEO whose first question, whenever anyone came to him with a bold statement or seeming revelation related to the business was “Do you think it or do you know it?” He constantly challenged his leaders to test their assumptions. And as we walked...