How To Keep Your Organization From Becoming A Soap Opera
Let’s start by acknowledging that soap operas are wonderful – for some people, some of the time. The adventures and...
How To Ratchet Up The ‘Current Best You’ In Pursuit Of Mastery
Ratcheting up the “current best you” in the pursuit of mastery requires fusing a healthy appreciation of and...
Why You Should Take A Differentially Good Approach To Business Development
Drucker told us that “the purpose of business is to create a customer.” All customers are equal, but some customers...
Want To Change Someone’s Mind? Change Their Personal Balance Of Consequences
People change their minds when their perceived personal balance of consequences changes. Sometimes you can change...
Simplify Planning So All Can COPE: Context, Objectives, Priorities, Enablers
COPE works as a simplifying framework to help structure thinking and empower. It’s a way for most to add discipline to...
The #1 Way To Increase Your Odds Of Success: Do The Homework
On the one hand, it’s self-evident. Those that put in the work required to succeed are more likely to succeed. Yet so...
How To Make Equal Partnerships Work. It’s Hard.
Equal partnerships are hard to make work because they are rarely truly equal. Even if they are equal for one brief...
Relooking At Why You Should Never Make Or Take Job Counter Offers
In my earlier article on this subject, I argued that job counter offers are lame attempts to correct past omissions...
What To Do With People In The Wrong Roles
What you should do with people in the wrong roles depends. If they don’t have the motivation, fit or strengths...
Relooking At Three Priorities In Ensuring A Smooth Merger Or Acquisition
One of my early articles for this publication was about AMN’s CEO Susan Salka and Three Priorities in Ensuring a...
How To Make The Best Use Of The Fuzzy Front And Back Ends Of Virtual Meetings
You can’t. They don’t exist. Instead, find ways to compensate for their absence. By now, we all know virtual meetings...
Relooking At Beyond 10,000 Hours: The Constant Pursuit Of Mastery
One of my early articles for this publication looked Beyond 10,000 Hours: The Constant Pursuit Of Mastery. The main...