What’s your end game?  Business owners seldom have an answer to that

question—they usually lament about being too busy to even consider possibilities.  It’s an undeniable fact that your game will end.  Will you sell the business…turn it over to the next generation…or perform a daily grind until you die—leaving your family and the government...

Surviving today while securing a prosperous tomorrow will not happen using

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Establishing an Ethics Platform requires clear boundaries. When boundaries

are blurred or poorly defined, cultural-values slip to ‘what the company tolerates’. CEOs must work diligently to close the tolerance gap. Executives, managers and supervisors must be taught then held accountable to deliver an immediate performance redirection session based...

CEOs do not create an organization’s values.  They do however clarify

Corporate values and their future tense (vision) serve as a powerful catalyst for the generation of corporate energy.  They also provide a platform for delivering on the organization’s brand promise—they align employees.  CEO  signals of cultural values, delivered by consistent words and deed,  will inspire customers, suppliers, and employees...

Management science and technology have combined to produce a “mega change

” in stereo.  Adaptations of digital technology allow us to:  create, transmit, compute, store, and retrieve data in ways that have marginalized time and distance as barriers to entry.  This revolution has catapulted us into Marshall McLuhan’s global village.  We are...

Most leaders will tell you that he or she places integrity at the top

Groupthink is powerful: a little unethical conduct here, a white lie there — justification is available for every integrity-compromised action. Suddenly, someone realizes something is wrong, and it’s too late; the momentum has built like a leaky faucet until a drip becomes a stream that turns into a flood, drowning employees, customers and those...

A common shortcoming of management is the inability or unwillingness to

A frequent mistake by well intentioned CEOs and HR directors is to have managers attend internal or external classroom training.  As the founder and former CEO of Achieve (now part of Achieve Global), I can attest that “just in case” training is a waste of time and money.  A system (such as the above) must be established.  A peak performance...

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...

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

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