Seth Godin’s recent blog, “Rigor vs Rigid” draws a distinction between two words that share the same Latin root. They began as Latin terms for stiff and unyielding, but Godin says they “sound the same but work in opposite directions.” In short, they’ve diverged: A rigid approach in life and work is easy to describe, […]
Kate Vitasek
Art of Procurement – Podcast with Kate Vitasek on “Contracting in the New Economy”
Art of Procurement podcast with Kate Vitasek was recorded on 28 June 2021. In this episode of the podcast, Kate joined host Philip Ideson to talk about: • What a formal relational contract looks like in practice and how the change management process should work • How to establish governance frameworks around contracts that are […]
Supply Chain Careers Podcast with Kate Vitasek
The Value of Career Surfing: with Education Executive Kate Vitasek Here is the link: https://supplychaincareers.com/podcast-kate-vitasek/
Collaboration Leads to Better Productivity, just ask a Chicken
Playing chicken need not be aggressively competitive or even the best way to have productive chickens or a workplace. A better approach is to engender cooperation and contentment to breed the most productive hens. Professor William M. Muir, the evolutionary biologist at Purdue University, has focused his research on group behavior and measuring productivity. In […]
WorldClassPerformer — 12 April 2021: Short Life Lessons from Kate Vitasek
Interview with Kate Vitasek by World Class Performer published 12 April 2021. Here’s the link: https://worldclassperformer.com/short-life-lessons-from-kate-vitasek/
Uncut and in Conversation with – Kate Vitasek, a founding force for Vested – ^ April 2021
Video/Podcast with EP Business in Hospitality on 6 April 2021 Link: https://www.epinsights.co.uk/ep-videos/uncut-and-in-conversation-with-kate-vitasek-a-founding-force-for-vested/
George Shultz on Trust
These days trust in our compatriots and in our institutions is what we need the most, but sadly, it seems like there is a lot less of it. One person who believed deeply in the value of trust, George Shultz, former Secretary of State and longtime government servant who died at age 101 in February […]
The Path to Collaborative Bidding — Intelligent Sourcing 19 March 2021
Article on RFPartner collaborative bidding by Kate Vitasel published in Intelligent Sourcing on 19 March 2021. Link: https://www.intelligentsourcing.net/the-path-to-collaborative-bidding/
A Necessary Era of Creative Destruction
The Depression-era economist and political scientist, Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950), worried about the stagnation of capitalism and globalization long before globalization was a thing (and he wondered whether capitalism would even survive). The term “creative destruction” that Schumpeter championed was a way to describe a process in which the old ways of doing things are destroyed and […]
When Tradeoffs Become Trade-ups
In one of his recent blogs, Seth Godin wrote about the interesting dynamics of tradeoffs, for instance, making a laptop more powerful will probably affect battery life and its weight. So, trade-offs can be a sort of magic if done right —or a double-edged sword, good for some, not so good for others. I submit that […]