by Gail Stout Perry | Oct 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
Innovation Isn’t Mysterious I was so excited – I could not believe that one of my professional students had agreed to show me around his workplace. You see, he was part of a skunkworks operation for a well-known technology company. I was giddy with anticipation. What...
by Gail Stout Perry | Oct 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
KPIs Are Essential (But Know Your Audience) I wanted to sink into the conference room floor. I was so embarrassed and was convinced that I must have just asked the stupidest question in the world. To this day, I cringe at the memory of standing there, in front of the...
by Gail Stout Perry | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
Change Management Matters The producer, her face pale, rushed up to me when the cameras stopped rolling and said, “You shouldn’t say that!” I was being interviewed for a segment on Bloomberg and was wracking my brain to remember what kind of word bomb I may have...
by Gail Stout Perry | Sep 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
I was asked to speak to a group of new college graduates and to share a few things that I wish I’d known earlier in my business career. What would have helped me to avoid major mistakes or to do a better job earlier on? This is part of a series of 4 blogs in which I...
by Gail Stout Perry | Sep 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
I recently had a conversation with an organization’s board member who said, “I’m so frustrated. We have a balanced scorecard but I don’t see how the things the management team is measuring or executing are linked to our strategy. I don’t see the connections. Our...
