Dow Jones Humanity Index (DJHI) reaches historic low. Failure to innovate cited as the cause.Comments 0

Today, corporate America reached a new low.  The headline reads: Radio Shack uses email to fire employees.  Although it may sound like a headline commonly-found in The Onion or Dilbert, in fact, it ran in The Chicago Tribune.  And the email it references:  “The work force reduction notification is currently in progress.  Unfortunately, your position is one that has been eliminated.”  What’s next - email divorce notices?  “Sorry honey.  Please wire transfer 50% of our liquid assets to my new bank account in the Caymans.”   

The question I have is this: where have all the leaders gone?

In this age of what have you done for me lately, press releases such as this one can be avoided.  It takes two things to fix this problem:   Read the rest of this entry »

Thank you! (800) CEO-READ ranks Andrew’s new book #1Comments 0

HOPE was featured in daily top 5 best-selling books on Aug 15, 2006 in spot #1.  

http://800ceoread.com/products/?ISBN=0787981265

An interview with Andrew conducted by China Daily’s Lu Haoting on China’s capacity to createComments 0

Invented in China
By LU HAOTING(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-08-14 06:37

For many internationally renowned speakers, it is common to feel lonely when speaking at seminars in China. The Chinese audiences sit quietly and listen. Seldom do people interrupt or ask questions.  Andrew Razeghi had this experience when talking about innovation and growth strategy to a group of company executives in Shanghai and Wuhan last month.

“But if you think they don’t have any ideas, you are wrong,” says Razeghi, adjunct associate professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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People Get Ready, There’s a Train a-Comin’: China’s Next Big IdeaComments 1

I’ve just returned from a speaking tour throughout China (Beijing in the north; Shanghai on the coast; and Wuhan in the interior). I was invited to speak on a topic that is receiving much attention among political and business leaders in China: innovation.

I must admit that I have returned with far more questions than answers, but one thing is for certain — China is not satisfied with being the manufacturing outsourcing center of the universe. They want what everyone else on the planet wants: to control their own destiny. There is only one way in which to do that. Create it. Therefore, in its 11th Five Year Strategic Plan, the Chinese Central Government has recently declared Read the rest of this entry »