The Jamison Group

As a basketball fan, I’ve been thinking during this off-season about how coaching accounts for much of a team’s performance level. As I thought about it more I came to the realization that coaching is actually a subset of mentoring and that when short-term performance is what you need to drive, a manager needs to think and act like a coach. The players’ talent is obviously very important, but good coaches exploit that talent. It’s the same in any sport — and in business.

A review of recent literature on executive recruiting suggests a number of important trends and offers many useful insights on the new twists, turns and grades in the road to the top.

You see it everywhere in the media right now – “Business execution leads to greater success”. How can you create the foundation for strategic business plan execution that moves your organization from “strategizing” to “executing" with impeccability!?

Much has been made of the profound effect of the “tipping point” phenomenon, the point at which a trend catches fire – spreading exponentially through the population. The idea suggests that, for good or bad, change can be promoted rather easily in a social system through a domino effect. The tipping point idea finds its origins in diffusion theory, which is a set of generalizations regarding the typical spread of innovations within a social system.