We are looking for virtual business pioneers to share their success stories in our upcoming book A Leader’s Guide to Virtual Business: Virtual Strategies for Building Real Competitive Advantage.  In the book, we discuss three critical components of virtual business: social technology, emerging law,...

Cindy M. Gordon joins John and JoAnn as a co-author for their new book: A Leader’s Guide to Virtual Business: Strategies for Building Real Competitive Advantage. Cindy is a seasoned senior executive with over twenty years of industry experience in communications & high tech and financial services....

Our first case study features an innovative way to tackle a major challenge facing leaders in the restaurant business. Although this challenge is not unique to the restaurateurs, it often creates a management nightmare in the fast food segment, especially for urban-based stores. The specific challenge...

I recently traveled to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to facilitate a series of management seminars in conjunction with Success Steps (www.success-steps.com).  The focus of the events included leadership, the learning organization, and empowering knowledge workers.  During my stay I was interviewed by KSA2 television....

Dr. John Girard, Sagology, and Mr. Ibrahem Ahmed Al Karaan, Executive Manager Success Steps, announce a strategic partnership between the two companies.  Success Steps will coordinate all Sagology training and consulting in the Arab World.  The first event under the new partnership was an Executive...

The Summer 2009 edition of Canadian Manager Magazine features a full-page highlight of our new book, A Leader’s Guide to Knowledge Management: Drawing on the Past to Enhance Future Performance.  The review is available for download here.  Here is the content: A Leader’s Guide to Knowledge...

by John & JoAnn Girard, published in Canadian Manager Magazine For the past two decades, public and private sector executives and managers have struggled to develop effective ways of sharing what their organizations know. Driven by concerns such as downsizing, the impending retirement of baby boomers,...

by John & JoAnn Girard, published in Smart People Magazine. For several years, we have had the great pleasure of speaking to groups of organizational leaders about knowledge management. Specifically, we speak about how smart people – people just like you –  may harness the power of knowledge...

by John Girard and Michael Allison, published in Inside Knowledge Have you ever wondered what business-related issue creates the most anxiety amongst middle managers?  The fact that information overload would be near the top of the list might surprise you.  In December, 2007 Basex, a knowledge economy...

By John Girard, published in the Indian PC Magazine. The genesis of a recent project was the belief that the downsizing, rightsizing or whatever the politically correct euphemism for events during the late 20th century created an environment in which many middle managers were having difficulty dealing...