Are your consultants paying dividends?

One of our management consultants was perusing this month’s HBR and came across an article on ‘The Merger Dividend’. It provoked  discussion on the skills you need to engage senior executives in high-stake moves.

Able and How is well aware of the risks inherent in a merger. We understand the complex changes that need to happen. And we understand the need [...]

The real inflation: The cost of a human life

MY KITCHEN, VERY EARLY — Out of the corner of my eye I spotted an article this week:

The Environmental Protection Agency set the value of a life at $9.1 million last year … [recently] the agency [had] used numbers as low as $6.8 million.

So said The [...]

Africa, communications and the future

MAYFIELD — I was in an outdoor restaurant in beautiful downtown Riyadh a few years ago and this lovely guy with a brilliant smile came over with some food. I looked at him and said: “Your from Kenya!”

And indeed he was.

I could tell by his disposition. There’s no faking it. It just is.

For me [...]