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Respond Please: Tips for Saving on Business Travel Expenses
Question: After taking an international business trip, your company's chief operating officer (COO) asks you for tips you can share to reduce business travel expenses (e.g., if possible, take the hotel shuttle to the office instead of a taxi, eat breakfast for free in the concierge floor lounge v. in the restaurant).
Ideas? Thank you for your suggestions. I am helping a client COO gather these tips to communicate across the company worldwide.
On Being Productive: Tools, Techniques, Inspiration & Motivation
He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.
Join Me: Sandy Schwan (MS03) to Speak at Day with Northwestern (Sat. April 16)
I am honored to be chosen as a speaker at ‘A Day with Northwestern’ on Saturday, April 16. This all day event features faculty from a variety of different academic backgrounds leading engaging discussions. Attendees can choose from 14 different lectures to personalize their schedules based on interests.
Change is not a decision: Its a campaign. 5 tips for leading campaigns for change
Wise words from Rosabeth Moss Kanter: http://bit.ly/bz1aas
Empower Employees: Try 3 Before Me
“Do or do not. There is no try.” Yoda, Star Wars' Jedi Master
Being Confident But Not Really Sure During Organizational Change
“ Act swiftly and vigorously…”
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), French general and emperor
Wishing You Failure During Organizational Change...Read On.
"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Executing Strategic Change: Transitioning From the Class Room to the Board Room
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
Thomas Carruthers, (1820 – 1875), English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia
A bittersweet but true quote.
The summer quarter offering of ‘Executing Strategic Change’ ended last week. So, as I transition my musings from our small intensive community back to this larger community, I will share what I communicated to the class during our final wrap-up.
Wishing my students continued success in their current and future roles.
Sandy’s Ten
