A Team of Two

Confusion exists in many enterprises about who is responsible for whom, who is to do what, who has authority over this or that, who is to blame, and which deliverables are needed to ensure a successful job. A simple concept called “A Team of Two” quickly reduces...

Chaos Theory

In November 2016, I delivered a 4-hour lecture in Guadalajara Mexico to a business group about Chaos Theory. How does one explain Chaos Theory and, even before answering that, we ask: why should anyone even bother with Chaos Theory? The reason we go to the trouble to...

The Human Needs

When, this past September I visited the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City I was struck by the details of the origins of our human species. Viewing that exhibit filled in ideas that CCCC has been developing about humankind – which boils down to people at your...

BUSINESS ATTITUDES IN THE NEW RUSSIA

As most people are aware, Russia is a strongly bureaucratic country – full of administration and rules (A).  However, CCCC’s analysis shows that Russian business owners tend not to be ‘A’, but are visionary and people-oriented personalities (VF), in stark...

Amazing America

Over the past few months, Canadians have watched in disbelief as the Canadian dollar came tumbling down. This, of course, is a myopic point of view; the Mexican peso, the Euro, and the yen have suffered exactly the same sort of decline, because the real story is how...

FAILURE

The old adage of “The person who never made a mistake, never made anything” is the starting point of a discussion about failure. Need to Learn Ourselves   Simply put, we learn from failure.  Sometimes, we humans have very thick heads.  Someone can tell us how...