Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Leadership, Like Lightning: Norman Osborn's Thunderbolts Management



Welcome back to Funding the Kryptonite, a blog that will take a look at comic book super villains and discuss them from a business perspective.

Before getting started, I wanted to put out an open call to other bloggers, comic or otherwise. I would love to increase my own exposure to the community by doing a guest post for you on a mutually agreed upon topic. I’ve got an MBA and an undergrad in Sociology, plus some diverse work experiences, so I can pen a piece on a number of different topics. Please contact me through the email link in my profile and let me know what we can set up. I’ll also happily offer you the same guest post opportunity, and a link from here.

Today’s blog post is going to touch on Norman Osborn, popularly known as Marvel’s first Green Goblin. Best known for killing Spider-man’s girlfriend Gwen Stacy, Norman was given control of the Thunderbolts (a government sponsored team of supervillains who were charged with enforcing the Super Human Registration Act after the Civil War crossover event). Team leadership is never an easy task to start with, and Norman is amazingly poorly suited to that. Let’s talk about why.

Sunday, 22 April 2012

Analyzing The Alien: Lex Luthor's Biggest Mistake



Welcome back to Funding the Kryptonite, a blog that will take a look at comic book super villains and discuss them from a business perspective.

Today’s blog post will touch on data analytics and how using your data needs to be handled correctly. To illustrate this point, I’m going to go back to the example of Lex Luthor and his continual quest to uncover information about his arch-nemesis, Superman.