Lots of you are Mode 6 or higher and getting frustrated in your efforts to provide the right résumé for executive positions.
“What is does an executive résumé look like?” people ask me. “Do you even know?”
Of course I do. And I will illustrate it with a story I saw on television several years ago.

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I sent out a short announcement to some of my Flemish colleagues about the audio of my conversation with the Belgian management guru, Luc Hoebeke. Vincent gave back a brief review:

A really high end conversation. Very intellectual guy: he looks to me like an economic/organisational philosopher, even a bit of an utopian/anarchist socialist (breaking the [...]

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For the past few weeks I’ve been telling you that I am developing a new program to help Hidden High Potentials discover who they are and find fulfilling work and lives. I’m proud to announce the first part of that program, The Secret Rules for Career Success. Because you are reading Requisite Writings right now, [...]

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The New York Times reports Sunday that the US Army has created its own aerial surveillance unit because they weren’t able to get the service levels they wanted out of the unmanned Predator operations run by the US Air Force. It’s happening because the new unmanned systems have changed where the discretion for the [...]

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As I’m cleaning up stray references to Wilfred Brown in Wikipedia, I came upon an unsupported reference to his ownership of Eilean Rìgh, a smallish island off the coast of Argyll in western Scotland.
Nothing really to say here, just noting that it’s the only reference to this important figure.

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Did you know that if you have more capacity to do work than the people you work with, they’ll oftentimes respond by addressing things to you even though you’re not the boss?
I’m busy putting the finishing touches on the launch of a new program Overachievers or Adult Underachievers, people who are not doing a [...]

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The BBC have taken down the “Here Comes the Boss” series by Patrick Wright, mentioned by Ken Craddock in his excellent bibliography on Requisite Organization related writings. I’ve been trying to track down a copy for weeks now.
And then I remembered: the Internet Archive Wayback Machine!
They have collected the transcripts of the series. Not as [...]

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As some of you probably know, some of my partners have been washed out in Cedar Rapids and southern Indiana. Thus far we at The Manasclerk Company headquarters have been able to escape these 500-year rainfall events here in Indiana’s North End.
But I’ve still been very busy with a new program that I’m rolling [...]

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I have decided to take the advice I gave Paul Holmström at Management Unplugged, I’m posting my answers to questions posed elsewhere. Recently, Jim Heskett of Harvard Business School asked “Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?”

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Or at least the way that you are trying to succeed.
I talk a lot about work levels, and I spend a great deal of my time working with them. You can see a lot using that lens. But you can’t see everything. I was lucky enough to work with Warren Kinston, who has some incredible [...]

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