Like millions around the globe I am glued to the TV for updates on the cave rescue of the 12 Thailand young men soccer team. To see the young men smiling as if it’s an adventurous camp outing instead of a potentially perilous situation is gut wrenching, I’m sure 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…
The one thing the Black Panther movie has taught us ALL is that inclusion can be very profitable. Smart business people have preached for some time that the only color acceptable to everyone on the planet is the color of currency…and depending on the country you’re in that’s many hues. 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…
The saying “Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail” can be true or false depending on the planning process. Have you ever been in a planning meeting (disguised as a “Strategy Meeting”) that was nothing more than a pontificating brain storming session? In other words it was just an assembly Read more…
Having witnessed my grandmother being tortured by the devastation of Alzheimer’s disease and my mother serving as caregiver, I can literally say it took a piece of my mind. Between my grandmother not recognizing me and watching my mother drained mentally from the burden of caring for someone who did Read more…
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of LEADERSHIP is leading those who are not accountable to you. Have you ever been placed in a situation where you had the proverbial “dotted-line” responsibility of leading a group of people who just assume you go away and not bother them? Well, I Read more…
