Month: July 2010

  • Multiplier Tools That Are Building Us

    Anyone who followed the development of television in the 1960s knows of Marshall McLuhan. One of McLuhan’s sayings is a perfect description of the multiplier universe in the 21st century: “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”

  • Capitalism 2.0

    In the past 200 years, capitalism has made great strides in increasing employment and the quality of life for more people in more places than any other structure.

  • Disruption Is An Opportunity for Multipliers

    For the past 35 years of being a business coach, I’ve tested and proven the multiplier approach to organizational transformation with thousands of entrepreneurial firms in 60 different industries around the world. I’ve done small business coaching with firms of just two or three people right up to entrepreneur coaching with the leaders of multinational…

  • Multipliers’ Transformational Effect On Bureaucracies

    Looking at the existing structures of our modern societies — especially the bureaucratic structures of education and employment — you can see why so many people never develop themselves as creators of multipliers: They work in tightly controlled structures and processes that allow little or no room for personal initiative. They’re expected to do work…