by Andrew Bass  |  Blog, Self-created Problems

Years ago I did research which showed how adding more and more rules to try to regulate an organization can actually lead to more, different, and often worse problems than you had when you started out. With all the debate Read More

In my February 2009 Newsletter, I wrote about how Moments of Truth shape your business. These often brief interactions disproportionately influence how clients and customers experience your business. (The phrase was the title of a great book by Jan Carlzon, former CEO Read More

by Andrew Bass  |  "How To's", Blog, Managing Uncertainty, Strategy

Although I like my writing to stay pragmatic and jargon-free, much of my reading is anything but: there’s masses of useful stuff in disciplines far away from “management” that hasn’t yet been translated or transferred. So, I was reading a Read More

Remember the film Stepford Wives, in which a young woman begins to suspect that the wooden-acting housewives in her new neighborhood are robots programmed by their husbands? Turns out this doesn’t just happen in the movies. It goes on all Read More

..because they are already motivated. This goes for employees, peers, customers, and in fact for all human beings. Think of the laziest person you know. From one perspective they are solid blocks of inertia. But from another – more useful Read More