How Long Hours And Less Sleep Impact Our Character

The quality of my daily decisions comes down many times to how much margin do I have physically, emotionally and spiritually.  Its impossible to sustain good character based decisions when you are already looking for a shortcut because you have nothing left to give.  This Forbes post will drive home Read more

A 40 Year Debate Over Corporate Strategy

This post by HBR was extremely challenging and helpful to me on this subject of corporate strategy.  Michael Porter’s HBR article on “What Is Strategy ” has become my best practice in helping clients.  The new factor in the conversation is how do you maintain a competitive advantage in a Read more

The Nine Surprising Secrets Of Elite Teams

In my role of executive coaching I get to work with a lot of leadership teams.  In my experience about 20% of the teams I see are excellent. The other 80% are average at best and many on the other extreme of being consistently marginal.  I will acknowledge that some Read more

Defining The Elusive Work-Life Balance

There is this constant tension between the priorities of learning and living.  The first stage of improvement is to learn something new that will help you set new goals.  I have reached that point several years ago on this subject but I still find myself having a very hard time Read more

Three Steps To Fix A Broken Culture

Organizational culture is near the top of every major companies list of priorities.  It is a combination of how your people and process work together to produce the maximum productivity.  If it is healthy, great things routinely happen but if is toxic you are on a fast track to the Read more

How To Lose Your Best Employees

I am absolutely convinced that securing the best people possible for your organization and then providing a culture that invests and retains them is your ultimate competitive advantage.  Every A player comes into their roles as a change agent.  If for whatever reason the culture is not open to change, Read more