
Stop Treating Meetings As Discrete Events. Build Relationships Instead
The essence and heart of a culture is its third value.

Everything Communicates
we will have seen editors and publishers (communication professionals) destroy their careers with personal communication missteps.

How To Work Differently With Investors, Operators And Advisors
In a nutshell, play to their strengths.

Building Differential Strengths As Investor, Operator Or Advisor
Strengths are made up of a combination of innate talent, learned knowledge, practiced skills, hard-won experience tying it all together, and, at the highest, best level, craft-level caring and sensibilities absorbed from apprenticeships with masters over time.

How To Manage The New Hierarchy Of Meeting Engagement
Meeting engagement getty There’s a whole new hierarchy of meeting engagement. Be aware of the different levels and your options for managing them. Those engaged and in-person at meetings are better able to learn, contribute and decide than those either just paying...

How To Help Those Lacking The Confidence To Be Open To Help
Don’t. You cannot help those lacking the confidence to be open to help. Instead, find another person or another way to help them or walk away. Earlier, I wrote about why you should hire people with enough confidence to be open to input. It built on ex-Stanford...

Relooking At Flipping The Classroom For Business Meetings
One of my early articles was Follow the 'Flipped Classroom' Model in Business Presentations. The main point was that it was time to flip your business meeting model. I noted that the norms for teaching and presenting information in the classroom were making a...

How To Ask Struggling Colleagues If They Want Help
In a lovely NY Times article, Jancee Dunn described a conversation with her sister, a teacher, ‘“What do you do when a kid is emotionally overwhelmed?’ I asked. Many teachers at her school, she told me, ask students a simple question: Do you want to be helped, heard...

How To Overcome An Addiction To Excessive Meetings
Eliminate, combine, spread out, shorten, thin, and manage meetings for effectiveness

The Executive Onboarding Two-Step: From Consulting To Permanent Employee
If the role is merely a stepping stone on the way to something else, don’t let it distract you from your quest