By Rob Eskridge
In 1983, I flew to Manila, capital of the Philippines, while returning from a Citibank planning session in Hong Kong. After transferring to a domestic flight and landing on the island of Cebu (right on the equator) I was met by my hostess Doña Maria Aboitiz, the grandmother of a college friend who knew that I had directed Camp Bloomfield at the Foundation for the Junior Blind.
Take a different view of your management responsibilities in today's uncertain economic environment. The new pressing management questions are:
Budgeting may be the worst management process that we inflict upon our organizations.
It only happens once a year, so we never get very good at it. The volume of numbers processed is overwhelming, and there is always an unrealistic deadline for final budgets.
ou may remember working with David Mesicek. He left Growth Management Center in 2006 to enter an MBA program at Babson College, just outside Boston, the highest-ranked entrepreneurial MBA in our country. Now that he's graduated, we asked Dave to reflect on his last two years, to tell us what's new in business education. Here's his report on five prevalent themes:
Summer in the Sierra got off to a smoky start from the forest fires, then it turned into a wonderful late Indian summer. Though the mountain bike riding is excellent for all riders in/and around Truckee, the golf courses are equally spectacular. We have several high-caliber public golf courses that offer robust terrain and astonishing views by award winning legendary designers like Jack Nicklaus, Brad Bell and Robert Trent Jones, Jr.:
If your next growth opportunity is not yet clear, or if your industry's competitive environment is changing rapidly, it's time for a strategic summit.
