Richard S. Melrose

I revel in helping business leaders drive enterprise health and value, with straightforward solutions that operate with extreme effectiveness.

[Richard S. Melrose @rsmvision21]

@profhamel .@profhamel Was Strategic 'Planning' the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning? Do we have a deep theory of strategy creation, yet? "We know now that the source of wealth is something specifically human: knowledge."

[Richard S. Melrose @rsmvision21]

@tom_peters Employee engagement surges and sustains when individuals and work groups make regular progress in meaningful work. Job #1 for all people managers, with credit to @TeresaAmabile ("The Progress Principle").

[Richard S. Melrose @rsmvision21]

@tom_peters … and I was merely revisiting the meaning of a word that has become meaningless through its application to every next shiny thing.

[Richard S. Melrose @rsmvision21]

.@tom_peters It might help to know what 'technology' means—i.e., "the practical application of knowledge"—before expressing opinions about it.

[Richard S. Melrose @rsmvision21]

@rgmcgrath For the very few who might care enough to change practices, there are valid measures—i.e. ones which demonstrate high predictive validity for performance and learning.

[Richard S. Melrose @rsmvision21]

@MikeBloomberg .@MikeBloomberg Might we drop the word "fight", please.

[Richard S. Melrose @rsmvision21]

.@leadstrategy .@MichaelEPorter .@profhamel .@skgreen .@BlueOceanStrtgy In search of a theory of strategy creation. Long overdue!

[Richard S. Melrose @rsmvision21]

@AdamMGrant Yeah, tell that to the CEOs who waffle between Dunning-Kruger Effect and Imposter Syndrome

[Richard S. Melrose @rsmvision21]

@BainAlerts .@BainAlerts Sounds like "we have met the enemy and it's us."

[❤️ @umairh]

Especially white Americans don’t like to hear it, but we got to the “coup” stage of fascism because we didn’t impeach at the concentration camps, cages, family separations, beatings, gassing, disappearances. Fascism’s a pattern of escalation and nobody tried to really break it

[Gary Hamel @profhamel]

In the rush to offshore, outsource and cut costs, many businesses have failed to build critical next-generation competencies. To take but one example, @VW is now years behind @Tesla in building in-house software capabilities. Playing catchup is a b***h. https://t.co/4QJqIXUIRS

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Getting Trump out of office today has nothing whatever to do with partisanship. The election is over. It has to do with the safety and security of the United States and the world over the next 13 days.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

RT if you think the Senate should #ExpelJoshHawley

[Congressmember Bass @RepKarenBass]

Found one.

[Richard S. Melrose @rsmvision21]

@HarvardBiz .@HarvardBiz .@C4Edge .@NACD .@MichaelEPorter The "need to be more strategic" belongs to those with the job #1 responsibility (CEOs) and those with fiduciary duty (Corporate Directors). Don't hold your breath. Mostly clueless, and complacently so, for over five decades.

[Richard S. Melrose @rsmvision21]

People who are unskilled at something (e.g. business strategy) "suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.” – Dunning and Kruger

[Richard S. Melrose @rsmvision21]

.@BlueOceanStrtgy Dear Professors: Your website claims: “There is no step-by-step model that prescribes in specific terms how companies can formulate and execute their strategies to obtain high performance.” Au contraire! Since 2002!! Now, vastly improved. Just ask.

[Richard S. Melrose @rsmvision21]

.@leadstrategy .@MichaelEPorter .@profhamel Most businesses do not have a #strategy. CEOs and Corporate Directors pretend otherwise, because they do not know how to get strategy right. They could learn but, apparently, do not care.

[Richard S. Melrose @rsmvision21]

@cleantechnica >.@ViRKL Thanks Alex!

[CleanTechnica @cleantechnica]

The 5 Famous German Automakers’ Epic Battle To Survive https://t.co/NggIhFwGJr