don't waste time and resources trying to develop non adaptive employees

A significant success factor for supervisors, managers, executives, and CEOs is knowing when and how to fire in a rapidly changing and fiercely competitive world—referred to by futurist David Houle as the shift-age.  Many managers, labor leaders, and government regulators are haunted by industrial-age ghosts.  Unknowingly, they are being influenced...

The Western world embraces personal freedom but a growing segment of the

This attitude is creating pawns out of people the constitution empowers to be the masters of Government.  The general population’s ambivalence towards politics finds everybody complaining but few willing to step up and participate in the democratic process.  With civics not being taught in many schools, young adults often grow up knowing little...

Radically shifting markets, a plethora of market share challenging products

Typical SMB owners are at the center of operations and can’t imagine the business surviving without them.  All too often this becomes a sad reality.  The largest wealth transfer in history is about to occur.  Estimates suggest that there are ten million small to midsize businesses (less than 1000 employees) in the USA—not including mom and...

First, get it through the Industrial-age riddled heads of your management

A great place to start the learning process is to accept that the future belongs to millennials..disregard at your peril..  YES!  They will require your wisdom and support.  YES! they must learn the people side of business. BUT NO!  they nor you will  benefit from forcing them to conform to your company’s current  knowledge and experience...

At the center of every organization is the collection of ideas, beliefs

, and cultural traits (collective habits).  Regardless of whether they were put there deliberately or whether anyone is conscious of their presence, habits do exist.  These beliefs powerfully but subtly impact the performance of every employee.   If a deliberate choice is not...

Successful organizations, like hurricanes, have a central core around

which everything revolves and toward which everything is focused. At the center are values (what the organization believes in) and vision (where the organization is going). Business plans and the hierarchy of organization charts make no sense in the “I” where the generation...

To survive and prosper in what is being referred to as the “shift

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Your grandparents did not work for organizations like the one you work

Everyone and everything is moving all the time. As companies jockey for position, mergers and acquisitions become the fastest way to secure temporary security and grow market share. ‘Job security’ has come to mean moving rapidly from one company to another. My oldest son, who plays lead guitar in his rock band, told me, ‘Dad, no one...

Political correctness is dampening the human spirit at work, at home,

and out in the community. Life is tough enough without imposing  language filters on each other. Relying on your own sense of what’s right and wrong when making language choices is risky, but don’t let political correctness blind you from  laughing at life’s humorous side...

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...