Getting new systems (models, programs, processes, innovations) used: As relevant now as 40 years ago In 1979, Peter Keen, a professor at various times at Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and Wharton, gave a keynote address entitled “Where Do Systems Get Used: Organizational Issues”. “Systems” for Keen translates to model-driven “decision support systems” (DSS) that were being […]
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The Executive Role: Is It For You? – Pete Bradshaw
The Executive Role: Is It For You? In 1985, I had the opportunity to participate in a leadership development and coaching program led by Howard Holt “Pete” Bradshaw of Organization Consultants Inc., who died in 2012 after a long career providing counsel to business leaders. At one point during the program, he asked the participants […]
Stepping up to the next role
Recently my team and I have put together a quick checklist of questions that we think help in creating a resume for a person whose goal is an internal promotion or finding a job at the next level in another organization. What is the next job? Often clients can’t actually define that clearly. They just […]
Published Book Review – The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth
Paula’s book review of “The freaks shall inherit the earth” was published in the Spring 2015 issue of the Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, Volume 31. (ISSN 0736-1920) Below is a copy of Paula’s review of a book that provides new and compelling perspective on entrepreneurship.
10 “Cool” – but not so cool resumes
Mediocre career advice meets mediocre graphic design and is making its way into mainstream resume preparation. Recently commentary on an article “10 Cool Resumes Made by Professional Graphic Designers” replete with samples showed up in one of the on-line Career Management discussions. In my opinion, these are perfect examples of irrelevant resumes. People who hire […]
Graphs on Resumes – Mostly Bad
One of the current trends on resumes of top executives are graphs – graphs that show the increase in share price, increase in revenue, company growth rate, reduction of costs, and related metrics of performance. Most recently I have seen such a graph placed as part of the description for each of the last few […]
Resumes Are Not Dead
The death of resumes continues to be endlessly and tirelessly debated. It is a topic that pops up periodically in the career press and online conversations and ebbs and flows like the tide. The problem is that the premise is wrong. All of the conversations are about the document we call a resume, which hasn’t […]