When Changing Senior Leadership Becomes Personal

The Challenge: Evaluating, or considering changes with Senior Leadership can be a considerable challenge.  Many times this executive has become more than a coworker. When leading together in times of both war and peace, a bond develops with deep emotional ties. ...

When Delegating Goes Bad

The Challenge:Evaluating, or considering changes with Senior Leadership can be a considerable challenge.  Many times this executive has become more than a coworker. When leading together in times of both war and peace, a bond develops with deep emotional...

Cleaned My Desk Today

That is a good Friday feeling.  Wow, it was a tough week. I put on my coat, and after placing the wooden hangar on the silver hook mounted on the back of my door, I glanced  into the office, and it felt, oh, so good.  My wife was working late on...

It’s Now Or Never

If you are old enough, you know who made this phrase famous.  I can hear Elvis singing “Tomorrow will be too late…it’s now or never…”.  Elvis was so good at what he did, he only needed a first name to be memorialized forever.As a Leader, we...

Freedom Lies In Being Bold

Be Bold he said.  She said to be Decisive.  Feel Passionate and Free they told me. Robert Frost claims “Freedom lies in being bold”. Theodore Roosevelt wrote, “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered...

Life Is Full Of Choices…Make One.

Collaboration…Teamwork…Delegation…Job Sharing…Cooperation…Empower…Partnership…Compromise…and the list goes on.  What do these words have in common?  Potentially they mean – “nothing gets decided”....

Peeling The Onion…

Did this title really bring you here?  I’m guessing it wasn’t because you thought I would teach you how to correctly peel an onion with out crying.  (Although I know how to do that as well.)  You’ve no doubt heard the expression “peeling the onion” back...

Connecting The Dots…

He handed me the envelope.  It was sealed, dated, and said simply Steve.  “Save this and open it when we finish our work” he said, with a slight upturned grin.4 months earlier, Vince and I began collaborating on a strategic planning project.  Several...

You Annoy Me! (But I have to Lead you anyway)

I was spending the afternoon riding in the car with a good friend.  This long trip could have been more expedient with a short flight, but my host was a road warrior, and he loved the drive.  As we cruised comfortably at 70, I realized he also had an another...

Help me…I’m Multi-Tasking Multi Tasks!

If you are near to my age, or as Florence Dusty might say, a “baker of my generation”,  multi-tasking has a distinct meaning.  When you hear someone say they are multi-tasking, you think of a list of several “to-do’s” that you focus on today.  Or...