Please, no more grandiose plans or ideas
I can hear you thinking (those of you who know me), "What about BHAGs (big, hairy, audacious goals) and 'big thinking' and even 'big ideas' [...]
Use context for better decision making
A dear friend and mentor once told me, “Being a manager is easy: you make decisions. If you make a bad decision, you correct it [...]
A good argument is a good thing
Are not. Am too. Are not! Am too! That's an argument no one wants to have. With good reason. It's going nowhere. Good arguments, or passionate [...]
Why you can’t have everything
Picture a small boy in a candy store with a $20 bill in his pocket. As he looks around the store at all the wonderful [...]
The curse of charisma
Charisma is to leadership as external stimulants are to getting in shape or winning. A leader's charisma can make the leader – and their followers [...]
Now is no time to be ignorant
Earlier this week I was reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King's quote, “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” and [...]
Weak and detached executives and their emotional bullsh*t
Sometimes executives, and other managers, exhibit bad behavior. It happens. Managers are people, too. Occasionally, however, executives are abusive, in the same way that a [...]