What do you do when your boss is bad leader? In How To Fail As A Leader, one of the main characters has real problems with the vision and direction of his boss. Sadly, this is not a fictional problem….
Preserver the core in order to stimulate progress
Good to Great, by Jim Collins is one of the most read and admired leadership for business books in the last thirty years. And it’s one of my favorite’s, too. It’s full of insights on how good organizations go to…
The more goals you set, the less you achieve
I spoke at an event a while back and the other keynote speaker was one of my friends, Jim Huling, co-author of the #1 best selling book, The 4 Disciplines of Execution. (It’s a great read. I highly recommend it.)…
Why bother with ceremony?
My childhood included institutions rich with ceremonies, from high church liturgy to high class educational institutions to high brow theater. And I decided I didn’t like ceremonies. My energy level certainly didn’t help me sit through formal events (ADD would be…
Create clarity and excellence will follow
Unless you have made an enemy out of your employees, they don’t intend to perform poorly. Everyone wants to do excellence work. But that doesn’t mean everyone actually does excellent work. One of the most common reasons for this is…
