Leaders Improve
Thankfully, the balance of the economy is resting quietly, your customers are comfortable with the level of service and quality that you provide, and your [...]
Leaders Act
Picture this: your car is stalled beside the road. Luckily, it’s just a dead battery, but there are no jumper cables around. A good Samaritan [...]
Leaders Clarify
In a subtropical forest in Africa a troop of gorillas is in the midst of their daily activities when a twig snaps in the brush. [...]
Leadership has always been hard
As the year 1776 drew to a close, the American experiment was in trouble. In recent months the Colonial forces had suffered much at the [...]
Level 5 failure
In Good to Great, Jim Collins researched and codified a surprising fact: that leadership matters a great deal in taking organizations from good to great. [...]
Who do you trust?
We encounter people in life who give us – with the best of intentions – advice and counsel that is inherently biased. In the 1967 [...]
Three secrets for improved performance in today’s economy
Times are tough and the economic seas are rough. The future is rife with uncertainty. So, what else is new? We, who are beyond a [...]
When you look, what do you see?
Have you seen this email? It has been making the rounds for a while: A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and [...]
Your momentum is taking you somewhere. Take notice.
The first time I saw people shooting pool (playing pocket billiards) I was hooked. Perhaps is was having seen The Hustler with Jackie Gleason as "Minnesota [...]
Leader, are you tired?
The business owners and senior managers I know who are really good leaders are frequently tired. It’s a good tired, but tired nonetheless. It’s a [...]