The most effective leaders believe in involving people in decisions that affect them. The best thinking of a group...
You can’t change the culture by mandate. Try it and maybe you can get compliance, from some people, for...
Willing buyers willing sellers
Blog, Execution, Leadership Development, Strategic Planning, Team EffectivenessWho is Snooki Polizzi? She was paid $32k to speak at Rutgers University. That’s $2,000 more than Nobel Prize...
Where did the time go?
Blog, Execution, Leadership Development, Strategic Planning, Team EffectivenessFor many leaders the unfortunate, aggravating answer is simple – meetings. There are good reasons and bad reasons to...
You will be assimilated, But not completely
Blog, Execution, Leadership Development, Strategic Planning, Team EffectivenessIt starts with the first interview. Whether you are a leader being considered for an executive level position or...
Arch Day: Lessons From My Father, A Pearl Harbor Survivor/Veteran
Blog, Execution, Leadership Development, Strategic Planning, Team EffectivenessOn December 7, 1941, my Dad was seriously wounded in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Another sailor, Tommy Thompson...
Some people shoplift. As a result the rest of us waste time trying to get pricing tags and glue...
The book’s about to close on another week. Another week that for many was pretty much like the prior...
Disagreement on Priorities
Blog, Execution, Leadership Development, Strategic Planning, Team EffectivenessA Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action. This country song wasn’t written about business. The phrase, however has...
…AND Get out of the way
Blog, Execution, Leadership Development, Strategic Planning, Team EffectivenessLead, follow, OR get out-of-the-way. Thomas Paine said it a couple of hundred years ago. Business and military leaders...