The 10 Best Decisions I’ve Made In Marriage

So many ups and downs, good days and bad describe most marriages.  You are living with another person that deserves your best while seeing you at your worst.  If our primary motive is to manipulate change in the other person for our own benefit then the marriage will probably never Read more

4 Signs That Your Focus Is Holding You Back At Work

The lasting negative impact of multi-tasking is that most people are no longer able to focus on any one key thing long enough to complete the work.  We are so used to starting and stoping tasks, that deep thinking and creative innovation are extremely difficult, because we cannot concentrate long Read more

Four Things Leaders Must Do When Times Are Tough

In normal business cycles change is always there and we are able to realign our company cultures to continue to be effective.  Today disruption is the norm with multiple parts of our value chain changing and never coming back.  Leaders must be dealers in hope that the future will be Read more

Developing A Change Leader Mindset

Sadly many leaders of very large companies are still trying to manage change or avoid it altogether.  Change is an ever present inevitable truth that simply cannot be avoided.  Leaders are dealers in the hope that our future beyond change will be better than our present reality.  This post by Read more

How To Develop The Next Generation Of Leaders

When the primary purpose of your leadership is to drive results you will take your eye off the ball of the higher priority of developing new leaders.  It clearly is a short term investment of time now that will pay significant results later for the entire organization.  This post by Read more

Good Leaders Do Not Need A Hammer

Today if you have to tell someone you are the leader in reality you probably are not.  Positional authority has given way to relational trust in most work cultures.  Does that mean that all directive leadership is dead?  No, however you must adapt to a situational leadership model to align Read more

Nine Strategies To Reduce Stress

The inability to sustain margin may be the biggest challenge we face in this always on world we live in.  It seems like the demands of work and home always exceed our capacity to meet them.  Since so many factors are outside of my control, I must discipline myself to Read more