Want to transform into a high performance business?

A car crash on Jagtvej in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I’ve been thinking about this question a lot lately, as I work to better relate my own “transformation” value proposition into language meaningful and attractive to my clients. I mean, who wouldn’t want to own and operate a “high performance business”? But, what does that actually mean? What does a high performance business actually look like, and why are they so darn hard to build and maintain?

It’s pretty easy to speak generally about a “high performance business”: superior performance through a tight, well articulated business model and associated streamlined

Tainted Supply Chain — here we go again…

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In the June 18th 2011 issue of the Economist newspaper (look — it’s in a magazine format, it gets issued weekly, it looks, feels, and smells like a magazine — why do they insist on calling it a newspaper…??? That’s my only criticism of the Economist) I came across this short article outlining how industrial plasticisers have been found in sports drinks and soft drinks manufactured in Taiwan. Apparently it’s their biggest ever food scare and might