Book Club #15: Extreme Ownership: How US Navy Seals Lead and Win, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

Mar 27, 2018 | Book Club

Many business books have the same formula: Identify a problem Show your unique way of solving the problem Do so within 300 pages or fewer This means that there’s a predictable comfort with such books. But it also means only a very few go on to become truly...

Equity or Profit Sharing? What’s the Right Way to Reward Employees?

Mar 19, 2018 | General

In today’s competitive marketplace, it’s important to consider key differentiators for your company when it comes to attracting (and more importantly, retaining) key members of your team.   Both equity and profit sharing send the signal that “You’re a direct part of...

Case Study #15: Beware of Shares and Options

Mar 12, 2018 | Case Studies

In 1992 Doug Chapiewsky started CenterPoint Solutions, Inc. He’d spent time at Bell Labs helping to develop what would become the call center model. But back then it was simply a single number that would then fork out to different people answering the phone.  ...

Book Club #14: The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox

Feb 22, 2018 | Book Club

Ask most business school students and they will often nod their heads in recognition when you mention The Goal.  It’s been a mainstay of business school curriculums for decades and despite the fact that it was published in 1984, it still retains relevance today.  ...

Case Study #14: Even When You’re Early, You Can Sell

Feb 5, 2018 | Case Studies

In 2006 when Claude Theoret began building elements of the company which would later become Nexalogy, the term “big data” didn’t even exist. It was just called data mining.   Today we’re familiar with the term and easily recognize big players like Amazon,...