Marketing guru Seth Godin has a short blog, “The short game, the long game and the infinite game” in which he asks, “How long is your long run?” He continues that a short game is when people or organizations see the lens through a short ROI and “measure the world in ten second flashes, and […]
Rocky Flats
CH2M Hill’s Run as a Top Environmental Firm Began with Rocky Flats
When I saw that CH2M Hill is the top U.S. environmental firm, according to Engineering News-Record’s Top 200 Environmental Firms list, I had to smile. Not that I was surprised in the least, but because it confirmed what I already knew about the company, given its history with the Rocky Flats Nuclear Production facility. What […]
Out with the Old (Thinking); In with the New (Thinking)
Maybe businesses should consider adopting New Year’s Resolutions: “We will be smarter as we get leaner.” “We will consider profit levels of our customers as well as our own.” “We will work toward Win-Win strategies with our partners.” Genuine objectives, made to improve relationships and build capacity. A little too much mushy thinking, you […]
Performance-based Contracts Perform
My Contract Management magazine arrived recently with even more evidence that a vested, collaborative approach to managing difficult contracts – or solving difficult problems – results in success on a huge scale. Most of us grew up hearing about the controversies surrounding the Rocky Flats Plant near Denver, a U.S. nuclear weapons production facility that operated […]
