http://www.chetrichards.com/c2w War, Chaos, and Business Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:30:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Painted on the side of a building in Indianola MS, B. B. King's hometown, pointing out overflow parking for the Main Street business district.  Don't worry, it's paved, although the occasional visit by local wildlife can't be ruled out. Check out the new blog by that name featuring pictures and observations ... http://www.chetrichards.com/c2w/2008/07/22/parking-on-bayou/ For those of you who may have missed it, there's a fascinating paper in the current edition of the Academy of Management Journal, "Momentum or Deceleration? Theoretical and methodological reflections on the analysis of organizational change," by Nikolaus Beck of the University of Lugano, and Josef Bruderl and Michael Woyode ... http://www.chetrichards.com/c2w/2008/07/18/does-change-reinforce-change/ Why indeed?  What does this simple children's story tell us about character, adversity, and the grand sweep of life itself?  Well, Mike Wyly, Col USMC, Ret., and Founder / Executive Director of the Bossov Ballet Theater, tells you in "Why See Bossov's Cinderella?"  (24 KB PDF)  Mike is one of ... http://www.chetrichards.com/c2w/2008/07/08/why-cinderella/ Tom Peters once wrote that the real work of any company is done around the water cooler and coffee pot.  In an era of globalization, virtual companies, flex time, and work-from-anywhere, what's a water cooler? Tim Leberecht has an idea on News.com today: blogs, but with a twist: Make it mandatory for ... http://www.chetrichards.com/c2w/2008/07/02/virtual-water-cooler/ The essence of Boyd's approach to competition was to keep his own orientation as closely harmonized with reality as possible, while doing every thing he could to disorient his opponents. Because "orientation" lies within the brain, strategists ought to be interested in how the brain works.  It's not surprising, then, that ... http://www.chetrichards.com/c2w/2008/06/27/how-orientation-works/