Change
November 25, 2019
Your business has a culture: good, bad or indifferent, it’s there. To you and your seasoned employees, it’s probably invisible. But it’s apparent to new employees or any prospective purchasers of your business. You and your management team may ...
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November 4, 2019
We hear a lot about culture: hiring for culture fit; how culture can help accommodate five generations in the workplace; or the five types of corporate culture….in fact, when I Googled “corporate culture” I got almost 1.5 billion links!
That...
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October 10, 2019
Imagine you are the leader of an organization facing change. Are you excited about the opportunities that change provides? Or, are you in fear and filled with uncertainty about the future?
If you are excited, you probably have some sense of your f...
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September 23, 2019
I have an important question: If you don’t plan and lead the transition of your business who will?
I’ve been beating this drum for several years and sometimes it feels futile. The statistics and the reality of your image in the mirror should...
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September 3, 2019
A key part of a leader’s job is to develop the leadership talent that exists within the people working in the organization. As Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook describes it, “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence a...
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August 26, 2019
Who has the right personality to take over from you? As you plan your succession, it would be wise to give some thought to the type of person who can continue to build what you’ve created. On one level you might want to try to clone yourself. After...
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July 8, 2019
Want to make more money? Help more people? Make better use of your time? While it seems like a tall order, we have some ideas that will help you make that happen and it costs nothing to put these ideas to work.
1. Imagine I own a vineyard and I in...
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June 24, 2019
In the British monarchy, the eldest son of the current ruler has always been the legitimate successor to the crown. If there were no sons, then the eldest daughter stepped up – hence the great queens Victoria, Elizabeth I and II. This system has be...
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June 3, 2019
In her 1987 book, That’s Not What I Meant Deborah Tannen highlights how where we’re from, our life experiences, culture, generational and other factors contribute to the way we communicate. Rather than creating a culture in our orga...
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May 21, 2019
A theme of the play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is mendacity, an interesting word that means lies and untruths. The play reveals an intricate web of lies within a dysfunctional family and examines the discrepancy between who people pretend to be and who t...
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