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7 August 2009 • 7:05 am
(the Tortoise is on the road – for the next few days we’re revisiting popular posts from earlier this year) Back in early June, I shared some new thinking about the design of balanced scorecard strategy maps. These two posts have been among the most visited pages in the Tenacious Blog since it’s inception. Even if you’re not a practitioner of balanced scorecard, I think you’ll find these ideas of value. Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of Strategy – Part IVertical and Horizontal Dimensions of Strategy – Part II7 August 2009 • 7:00 am
For the next several days, I’ll be on the road, with limited opportunities to continue writing and posting. It might be a bit too early in the life of the Tenacious Blog to begin using reruns instead of original posts, but ‘radio silence’ seems like a poorer alternative. So I’ll be posting links to some of the most popular items that have appeared here since May – with the hope that those of you who have subscribed since then will be inspired to go back and read some of these earlier posts. Thanks for your continued loyalty, and I look forward to bringing you new insights later this month. 27 July 2009 • 3:11 pm
Many thanks for your patience while the Tortoise has been out of sorts. The technical problems that the site was experiencing appear to be resolved, although not apparently as a result of any of the maintenance upgrades that the site needed. So I have no certainty that there won’t be more problems, but things seem okay right now. Because of an abundance of spam comments, I’ve closed all prior posts to new comments. Of course, new posts will be open for comments, and I hope you’ll contribute to building a dialog here. If you’d like to comment on any post, past or present, you may also send an e-mail to comments@TenaciousTortoise.com. Your topic suggestions are especially welcome. I also learned how easy it is to fall out of the routine of daily blogging. I am working on the first substantive post in a week, and should have it up soon. I’ll be working hard to regain the lost momentum. Thanks again for sticking around. 9 July 2009 • 9:30 am
You just can’t make this stuff up. Several news reports yesterday described flight delays at New York’s Kennedy Airport when dozens of diamondback terrapins crawled out onto a runway from nearby Jamaica Bay. Airport officials said that the turtles were seeking a place to breed.  Diamondback Terrapin (image from Western Connecticut State University) “Everybody had a good attitude considering it was turtles going off to hatch more turtles,” said Port Authority spokesman John Kelly. The animals were piled onto the back of a Port Authority pickup truck and were moved “back into Jamaica Bay.” Since I am humor impaired, please submit your own punchlines below. 25 June 2009 • 3:17 pm
A quick update for readers and subscribers to the Tenacious Blog. New ContributorI am excited to tell you that tomorrow’s post will be a milestone in the young life of the Tenacious Blog. My friend and colleague Heather Stagl has agreed to contribute her first - of what I expect will be many – insightful blog posts. 14 May 2009 • 12:04 pm
Leaders seeking performance improvement are often unrealistic about the capacity for change in their organization. Each change initiative is undertaken with urgency. Tangible results are elusive. Patience runs thin. Good intentions are thwarted by impatience. Members of their organization know the tune, and are tired of the dance. Why change, when last year’s initiatives have been abandoned? Apathy and cynicism are widespread. Leaders are seen as lacking the determination and the patience to stay with a good program long enough to see results. |
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To my great dismay, I discovered over the weekend that the comment form for blog posts is not working (thanks to my friend Jim for making me less clueless). My dismay was tempered by a glimmer of hope; that the reason that there have been so few comments to the posts is entirely related to this problem – but I am not convinced. As recently as today I am still getting an occasional spam comment, which is one reason why the comments are moderated before they go live. I simply don’t know yet when the problem started, and how many of your thoughtful comments were sacrificed to the dreaded “500 – Internal server error” monster. To anyone who may have wanted to post a comment and was unable, please accept my humble apologies.
Over the next couple of days, I’ll be working to try to resolve the problem, and to apply some much-needed maintenance to the WordPress engine and Atahualpa WordPress theme that power the site (both are open source shareware platforms without which I wouldn’t have been able to build the site). So there may be an interruption in the blogroll and times when the site will be incomplete or unavailable.
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