Interview with Sarah Michele
Last year, I had the honor and privilege of being the mayor of the Sage City Accounting Village at Summit 2012. During that event I was interviewed by Sarah Michele the host of the event. Last week, I turned the tables on her and interviewed her about the updated Sage City event scheduled for Summit 2013. [...]
Leadership Lessons from a Great Mom
So your seven-year old son has been working diligently on his homework sheet due on Friday all during the week. He even got most of it done on Wednesday even because he knew he had baseball practice on Thursday night and would not be able to do it. He decides early Friday morning to add [...]
Lesson from the Salon
I have often spoken about the parallels between software implementation consultants and salon owners. For example, both revenue models have about 50 percent coming from the sale of product (including renewals for software) and about 50 percent coming from service provided. This morning, this “Suggested post” was in my Facebook stream: Notice that it mentions [...]
On Bailouts, Hypocrisy, and Circular Errors
This morning I came across a piece in the Huffington Post about Ally Bank. It seems that Ally according to the author did not join a settlement with federal regulators with regard to foreclosure abuse of its customers. This is notable because Ally Bank was once known as GMAC, the GM stands for General Motors, [...]
An Oldie, but Goodie–The Seven S Model
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to speak about an old friend, the Seven S Model, as part of the Sage Thought Leadership Webcast Series. This model originated at McKinsey and Company in the 1970s and was made famous by appearing on page 10 in Tom Peters and and Robert Waterman’s all-time best seller, [...]
Flunking My Son’s Report Card
My son, Sean, got his report card last week, oops sorry his “Student Assessment.” I think he did well. I am not 100 percent sure, because with all the education jargon it is difficult to really tell. In fact, in order to decipher the gobbledygook (as my friend Michelle Golden calls it) I was sent [...]
A Modest (Marriage) Proposal
This week the media, traditional and new, have been bursting with conversations about the Supreme Court of the United States taking on both California’s Proposition 8 and the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, both of which attempt to define marriage as between one man and one woman. I wish to offer a libertarian proposal on [...]
A Story about My Grandfather
My grandfather had an expression he used to use on occasions such as a beautiful early Fall evening. “I wonder what the poor people are doing?” Now this might strike you as odd, extraordinarily glib, or even downright insulting. It was not. It was actually meant as a reminder to take pleasure in the wonder [...]
TGO Consulting Joins Ed’s List
I am thrilled to announce another addition to the tongue-in-cheek-eponymous Ed’s List – TGO Consulting. I have had the honor of knowing the principals Tracy, George, and Orgad for almost 20 years. We were all Great Plains Software partners back in the day. TGO Consulting is the largest organization in the information technology consulting business [...]
On Imitation
Yesterday, my brother Rich and I had a Skype conversation during which were talking about imitating star performances. He then told me this great story. “In 1998, Nathan Lane played the Cowardly Lion in a concert adaptation of the Wizard of Oz. “A women came up to him after the performance and snidely said, 'What [...]
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Ed Kless
Corporate Iconoclast
Ed Kless is the senior director of partner development and strategy for Sage Business Solutions. He is a frequent contributor to industry publications, including the Journal of Accountancy and Harvard Business Review, and has spoken at many conferences worldwide on project management, pricing, and knowledge workers. A senior fellow at the VeraSage Institute, he lives north of Dallas with his wife and two children and ran for Texas State Senate in 2010 and 2012.
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