Whether you lead an organization or team, are launching a start-up, or working as a professional working in a company, your ability to tell a compelling story is essential to the success of your product or service. It makes you infinitely more interesting than your...
You’ve been tackling some demanding subjects these past few months, so this month I’m going to congratulate you and give a month off. Well, not entirely. It’s more like a month to learn about leadership in a different way – through movies about great leaders. This...
This month, I’m turning my attention to one of the biggest challenges in implementing a large scale change in multiple locations. As long time readers know, I’ve been using empowerment as an example this past year because you can’t efficiently scale your business unless you...
Last week, I was concluding a team-building series with a dynamite business team leader and his carefully selected team, which blended the best of the former team with newcomers from other companies and industries. We’d been focusing on understanding each other on a more personal...
Is there such a thing as acquisition season? It seems that I have been in a lot of conversations about potential, pending, and actual acquisitions since the weather started to turn warmer. Even though acquisitions are more common than many people think, they are still...
Last month, I recommended making one small change per month to become one of the best listeners in your organization and reap the rewards of better collaboration, higher trust, and improved teamwork. January’s challenge was to “minimize distractions. Turn off the phone, put the laptop in...
It was a cold and dreary winter day. I sat in a conference room with a VP of Operations and his team of nine directors for their quarterly operations...
O.k., Everybody – Listen Up! Actually, I mean it. It’s the #1 change you can make in 2013 to dramatically improve in any area of your life that involves other people. Think about it. There are only four ways to communicate that involve language: writing, reading, speaking,...
For as long as there have been people-related initiatives, there has been the vexing challenge of measuring their impact. It’s infinitely more complex and challenging than the day-to-day...
It seems so obvious, like such a no-brainer: your business has reached the stage at which you’ve stabilized the core and you must scale. Meanwhile, your market demands that you grow while getting even more nimble and flexible. The answer is obvious, right? Drive decision-making...