UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

When people are proud of themselves, it is often for their minds. Those complex calculating machines that sit on our shoulders and turn everything in life into decision trees.
Is this good? Is it right? Is it fair?
Will it be good and right and fair months from now? Years? Days? The decision machine, the mind, keeps [...]

The greatest company in the world doesn’t exist. It is a moving myth; a flash of optimism in a world seeking icons. Heroic figures. Sirens.

Today, many would vote for Google as the greatest company in the world. It is cool and wonderful and intriguing and blessed with a sorcerer

The great trick in business is to

turn
ugly math into lovely math.
Here’s what I mean: one of our clients has 3,000 salespeople producing an average of $1 million in sales annually. Management’s dream is to double the production to $2 million per rep. It’s a nice thought, but impossible to achieve. Impossible? Why? Because [...]

2,000 years ago, Christ rose from the dead. On a much less profound level, but in our minds today, will Chrysler do the same? The question is, will it be

Imagine this: a company arrives in town and offers the good people who live there jobs. No one is forced to take one. No one holds a gun to their head. The same company then has the temerity to say, “If you work hard and serve our customers well, we will promote you from within.” [...]