What qualifies an executive coach who authors business books and blog

My vision for this series of postings is to encourage effective leadership at home—help parents transform themselves and their children into vibrant “humans becoming”, rather than stagnant “humans being”, or worse yet,  mind-numbed “humans doing”. The secret to a fulfilled life at home, work, or out in the community...

Today’s workplace doesn’t look like it did just a few years

ago — yet many people are operating from an industrial-age mindset that is no longer reality based. Instead of looking at their job as a business relationship, they view coworkers as family. Instead of questioning their company’s direction and assessing the capability of...

As a parent, I know the agony of watching children leave the nest unprepared

—an  opinion they did not share at the time.  There are many pitfalls and traps along life’s way and I wanted to protect them from serious mistakes.  They wanted to leave before I felt they were ready and I tried to hang on long after they’d already gone.  There comes...

I just completed reading Michael Lewis’s new book,  Boomerang: Travels

in the new third world.  He reflected on how the cultures of Iceland, Ireland, Greece, and Germany got caught up in the current economic crisis and how each culture is struggling to recover.  I laughed at their gullibility until it dawned on me that we are on the same path...

training withour ROI is wasteTraining should be the organizations ultimate

signal.  It tells employees what is and is not strategically relevant.  If proposed training is not strategically relevant, DON’T DO IT.  Any training that does not  impact the bottom line is a costly distraction.  Replace “just in case” with “just in time” training...

As an executive coach and organization development consultant, I’ve

A major factor in senior team development is the CEO not allowing direct reports to slip off the hook—always holding them responsible and expecting performance. Holding toes to the fire and resisting the urge to bail out marginal performers makes for strong teams.  It’s not unlike the tough love strategy some parents use to help children understand...

“Those choosing to lead in the post industrial age must make a 180°

Transitioning your company from a dependence on personal authority (power, knowledge, and experience) to managing by process-discipline will be challenging because industrial age thinkers typically know—so they will have less compulsion to learn. Without continuous improvement, what your team knows will eventually start holding you back.  To grow...

It’s been said that a goodbook tells the truth about its hero and

Last Friday Borders bookstores began liquidation sales at their remaining 399 retail stores. Former Borders VP and Chief Merchandising Officer and current interim CEO, Mike Edwards, sent out an email to Borders Rewards customers, which was an interesting spin on events. But to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, a thing is not necessarily true because a brand...

Recently, UPI wrote, “eyes are riveted on Britain where American media

mogul, Rupert Murdoch is up to his neck in a phone-hacking and police bribery scandal.  On this side of the Atlantic, the question is whether he or any of his crew violated U.S. law.  U.S. law covers all employees of U.S. corporations—even executives managing employees based...