Jame Healy's Recent Thoughts

It’s all about Strategy Execution…

Jame Healy — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:31:27 -0700

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without Strategy is the noise before the defeat.”

Sun Tsu (”The Art of War”)
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Back to Business, the Old Fashioned Way

Jame Healy — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 14:56:12 -0800

Regardless of when and how the current economic “contraction” reverses itself, I think we can agree that the face of business as we know it is going to change… at least I’m hoping it does.

I remember in the late 90’s, when I was an analyst for a venture capital firm, the number of “pimply-faced" self-styled entrepreneurs that would come in with a hastily written business plan, seeking 7- and 8-figure series A financing. Without exception these business plans had one thing in common: no prospect of positive operating cashflow or income in my lifetime.

The Danger of an Ideation-only Strategy

Jame Healy — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:38:00 -0700

It only takes a cursory search of many of the leading management strategy journals and periodicals to figure out that Innovation is on the mind of many senior and influential leaders within the business world.read more

Finding Collaborative Balance

Jame Healy — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:00:30 -0700

What is Active and Passive Collaboration?

When a group of people need to come together to achieve some common objective, it’s somewhat of a no-brainer that collaboration is going to be necessary. Lately I’ve been giving some consideration to some of the common modes of collaboration and they seem to fall fairly cleanly into two distinct categories which I am going to refer to as active and passive. For the sake of clarity, let me provide some definition and examples to be clear on what I mean by this:

Myopic performance measurement…

Jame Healy — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:06:33 -0700

How many times have we seen this before? No names of course.

The irony of this cartoon is that the "employee" may in fact be correct. Granted that a chart with this kind of dramatic drop-off is not typically illustrative of positive performance, we all too often pay these one-dimensional measurements too much attention.

Performance is not just results...

Jame Healy — Fri, 25 May 2007 08:31:05 -0700

Cross-posted from http://www.jamehealy.com/performance_is_not_just_results
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