There has been building for some time in a great number of organizations a momentous catastrophe that if not acknowledged and acted upon will have devastating results. This event, a Leadership Cliff, will occur in these organizations because effective leaders are not...
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand...
Leaders sometimes find themselves in situations when meeting debate starts out as polite dialogue and then as emotions and passions take over, it erupts into heated argument and maybe red-faced name calling. If you’re not careful you too can be drawn into the fray....
Take a look at this clip from the movie Dead Poets Society starring Robin Williams. [jwplayer config=”Non Auto 400×600″ mediaid=”520″] How many times do we get dragged into a discussion about a subject, a project, a process or even a...
Our patience wore very thin as I, and the group I was working with at the Memorial Golf Tournament, repeatedly explained what could not be brought into the course. Generally, people were very understanding and complied with the rules, but it was the few who could not...
I went to the grocery store and bought 21 items. The cashier folded my receipt multiple times and I stuck it in my pocket and when I returned home I laid it on my desk so later I could enter the amount I spent in my accounting program. I had done this many times and...
