1: I’m often credited with the motto, “Only the paranoid survive,” former Intel Chairman and CEO Andy Grove writes in his legendary business book of the same name.

“I have no idea when I first said this,” Andy notes, “but the fact remains that, when it comes to business, I believe in the value of paranoia.”

Why?

Because “business success contains the seeds of its own destruction,” he observes. “The … continue reading

1: “People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets, even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it,” observed W. Edwards Deming, the eminent scholar and management theorist. 

Our “real job” is to help our company win, Fred Kofman writes in The Meaning Revolution.  “That is, to accomplish its mission profitably and ethically.”

But that’s not what we … continue reading