In 1960, Theodore Levitt wrote “Marketing Myopia” for the Harvard Business Review. He dissected the decline of the railroad industry, placing the blame fully on the industry itself, for not having the ...

Albert Einstein once said, “If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it.” While that may sound extreme, it does highlight the ...

As demonstrated in a series of new studies, researchers show that as the prevalence of a problem is reduced, humans are naturally inclined to redefine the problem itself. The result is that as a ...

Guess what the members of your audience are most interested in? That’s right, their problems and how to fix them. This is old news to anyone who has studied the arts of rhetoric, persuasion, and, of ...

Performance management and employee satisfaction are two areas that pose challenges for employers. Using performance management methods such as appraisals to measure employee performance comes with ...

Former Senior Policy Analyst for Defense Budgeting Policy, Center for National Defense, Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy Justin Johnson specialized in defense budgets for The ...

I am increasingly troubled by the focus on collaboration tools without a comparable focus on understanding how employees work together successfully — or why they aren’t collaborating at all. Most ...

The recent spate of tragic police-involved shootings has brought to light the need for police reform in many areas of the country. It’s reasonable for the Massachusetts legislative and executive ...