Perhaps the New Year has blessed you with that well deserved promotion or after going through a series of tough interviews you finally landed that dream managerial job, life is good….at least at the moment. I speak a great deal about corporate ambiguity and how it can literally bring Read more…
Taking the credit for a bonehead decision is tough, especially when your career/life hangs in the balance on that decision. Machiavelli once said “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively”. Niccolo Machiavelli known for Read more…
“Standing out in a world where everybody is yelling LOOK AT ME” My wife asks me the other day “Do I have presence, do I command attention when I walk into a room”? I answered immediately “Absolutely…when you’re with me” and she proceeded to pummel me after the answer Read more…
FAILING into “Servant Leadership Luck” Because like many of you I’ve failed on more than a few occasions in my life….but I’ve succeeded a lot and not necessarily only financially or career wise but “SERVANTLY WISE”! Prior to venturing out on my own 8 years ago I spent a lot of Read more…
Businesses large and small are falling victim to the seduction of change management. To keep up with the joneses of an evolving marketplace and conniving competitor behavior, often times the popular decision is to change course (“change” being the operative word). I’ve personally worked with companies who have featured change Read more…
Sometimes I like most get caught up in business language rather than the real application. “Sales Force Effectiveness” is that ambiguous business language that quite frankly has very little real application. Isn’t sales force effectiveness just a sexier way of saying “Sales Force Efficiency”? With all the tools that fall Read more…
Albert Einstein said “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value”. Einstein’s quote places a rather interesting twist on success and if I’m reading between the lines it’s not a positive success twist. Perhaps his implication is that “Success” is and always has been a self-centered Read more…
It can be a blessing and it can be a curse but one thing is clear…a lacking grey haired leader is noticeable. Let’s be honest we all have a predisposed bias for the person at the top of the food chain to have some “Stress Hairs” on the scalp, it Read more…
Is it possible to be better than GREAT? Ask APPLE. I learned just the other day that APPLE has sold 700 million IPhones to date….yes, 700 million FREAKING mobile rectangle devices. At first I responded to hearing this with an “OK” then I thought about it for about 10 Read more…
“Careful the plate is hot, don’t touch the plate it’s very hot……..I’ll get you band-aid for your burnt finger”. “Identifying”, “Anticipating” and “Changing” someone’s behavior has to be up there as the most difficult thing to accomplish. The hot plate example above illustrates the difficulty it is Read more…
