PrimeGenesis Blog
Not the right tool for you
Guy walks into a high-end auto repair shop with his very old car needing repairs. The mechanic takes a look at the car and says "We're not the right tool for you. You need someone who can patch this together to last another 20,000 miles. Sometime...
Thankful for the American Culture
During a conversation about the bleak state of the US economy at the last CEO Boot Camp, one of the non-US CEOs was clear that he was betting on the future of the U.S. In particular, he said he had always been impressed with Americans' ability to adapt to change...
Watch out for Minnesota Nice
Wikipedia, that font of all current knowledge, describes "Minnesota Nice" as "courteous, reserved, and mild mannered". If everyone in the world disciplined themselves to be like that, the world would be a better place. If everyone in...
The New Leader's Two-Hour Action Plan
Have you noticed that most feature films are about two hours long? If the world's best directors with the world's best scripts, best actors, and best special effects have decided they can keep peoples' attention for only two hours, what makes you...
Executive Onboarding Transformational Partnership
The Five O'Clock Club posted two videos of a 15 minute talk I gave to one of their breakfast meetings. Click here to view on YouTube The main points are that the critical "onboarding" relationship is the transformational partnership between a...
Harvard’s Marco Iannuzzi: Difference-maker
What do you want and what are you willing to give up to get it? The answer was clear for Marco Iannuzzi. He wanted to play football for Harvard and he was willing to give up a lot of time and deal with a lot of pain and risk to get there. Anyone watching his...
When your way and their way don’t match
US Army Colonel Randy Chase spent 10 days on a navy ship for cross-training. On his second day, he ran out of toothpaste so went over to the ship's store to buy another tube. The stores on navy ships aren't as big as your typical suburban...
"The Will to Prepare to Win" – Vince Lombardi
Football coach Vince Lombardi put it well, "The will to win is not nearly so important as the will to prepare to win." Most people have the will to win. Most people enjoy winning and all that comes with it. The people willing to put in the hard work over time required...
Going all-in for "The Game" (Harvard-Yale)
This weekend is the Harvard-Yale game. For any associated with those schools in any way, this is "The Game". Nothing else matters. All year long, these two teams have known they would play this game and that this is what they would remember...
If You Don’t Say It, It Doesn’t Exist
Richard Wolfe, author of Revival, The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House”, spoke this morning on NPR Morning Edition about the communications problems in the Obama White House. He observed that there has been a lack of clear messaging about...