Leadership is a Foul-weather Job
Great leadership looks easy when it’s smooth sailing and everybody’s happy. It’s during storms that a leader’s true colors are revealed. The environment that both…
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Stop Punishing Your Team For Sharing Their Ideas
You’re sitting on a gold mine of innovative ideas for: Disruptive new products and services More efficient approaches to using company resources How to keep…
Not Even Samurai Can Manage Their Emotions
As an executive and leader, do you believe that managing your emotions is something you could and should do? Well it’s a lofty goal, but one…
Being in the Right Seat on the Bus is Useless
In the book, Good to Great, author Jim Collins suggests getting the right people on the bus and in the right seats. While this seems…
How to Build a Great Team (Part 1)
Today we begin discussing the first of five characteristics of high performing teams. Whether you are a business owner, manager or CEO you need to…
A Message to Garcia
The following is a true story of initiative and responsibility. Though it was written more than 100 years ago, it continues to be relevant and…
What’s Past is Prologue
These words from Shakespeare’s, The Tempest[i], tell us that what has happened in the past has led up to today and influences tomorrow. We can…
Yes, It Is Your Job!
On a racing yacht, every crew member’s primary job—their overarching goal—is to make the boat go fast in the right direction. Each crew member performs…
Unconventional People, Unconventional Opportunities
Conventional people solve convention problems by applying conventional knowledge. Unconventional people are needed to solve unconventional problems and to take best advantage of unconventional opportunities.…
