6 Tips For Better Work Life Balance

Work life balance is a tough subject for companies and employees.  No one wants to reduce productivity and on the other hand staying connected 24/7 is a prescription for disaster.  This Forbes post offers several practical tips that will help: “These days, work-life balance can seem like an impossible feat. Read more

Corporate Ethics Can’t Be Reduced To Compliance

The overwhelming majority of leadership books that I read rate character as the number one issue facing leaders in any culture.  I have found out the hard way, that the only successful way I can sustain positive change is to change what I believe first and that determines then how Read more

5 Leadership Lessons Learned From The Military

For leaders to be effective they have to possess both a will and the ability to lead others well.  The character part is what ultimately determines the outcome and this post by Jeff Boss in Forbes is one of the best I have seen in a long time: “Leaders—true leaders—aren’t Read more

The Work Life Balance Fallacy

Work Life Balance as a concept has one serious inherent flaw.  It to some degree assumes that everything has equal value and you end up in a win-lose dynamic when one of your plates stops spinning.  I love the concept of integration and Alyssa Oursler does a great job in Read more

How To Avoid Becoming A Weak Leader

By definition a leader is someone who can inspire others to follow their direction.  Sadly, that criteria does not prevent the leader from leading people to make a bad decision and follow down the wrong path.  Many times the character of the leader is the determining factor and this post Read more

7 Leadership Tips When The Business Is Struggling

No matter how great things have been with the multiple organizations I have worked for, there always comes a time when things plateau or decline.  How long this momentum shift lasts depends a great deal on how leadership deals with the problem.  This Forbes post is excellent: “It’s easy for Read more

The Priority Of A Life Plan

All of us have become proficient at doing all the major components of the business plan at work.  We know how to define goals, create plans, execute priorities and evaluate success. However, very few of us use these same disciplines to help lead our personal lives.  Research shows that approximately Read more

How To Deal With A Spouse’s Bad Habits

Marriage may be the single greatest leadership challenge in all of life.  First of all, these people know everything about us and there is no way to fake it. We also over time develop these lists of annoying things they do that drive us crazy.  So practically what should we Read more