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…
Innovation: You Can’t Get There From Here
Innovation extends from our current knowledge, technology and ethnography into what theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman coined as the Adjacent Possible.[i] Described by innovation theorist Steven…
You Can’t Compete with the Big Box Stores So Don’t Even Try
You can’t compete against the Big Box stores – for their customers, so don’t even try. The good news is that they can’t compete against…
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…
Top Reason Why Good Companies Fail
After more than 30 years of running my own businesses, and consulting with other leaders on the operation of theirs, I’ve identified the top reason…
