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...

My dream was to be outstanding in my field.  I finally made it.  That

Many of my childhood chums had chosen to live their entire lives in the environmental masterpiece that, although I left as a teenager, never stopped calling home.  When my school chums and I got together, we reflected on our differing career paths.  The talkee usually ended up with his/her eyes glazed over, listening wistfully and somewhat enviously...

There are only three folders where we humans file things:  *Things I

CAN Control  *Things I CANNOT Control  *Things I Might Be Able to INFLUENCE’.  The only things that belong in the Things I CAN Control folder are what you SAY, what you DO, and what you INTEND. The most powerful of those in any situation is what you intend, because that...

“The best laid plans of mice and men” The skepticism of Robert Burns

 Long range planning is at best a waste of time .  Visioning by contrast, has become essential to the process of creating plans that work.  Planning is like being a naval Admiral.  It is serious and control oriented—demanding  commitment and performance.  Visioning by contrast, feels more like being a pirate.  It’s about innovation, imagination...

Outdated thinking and habits, remnants of the Industrial-age, are causing

serious problems in many organizations—often unbeknown to CEOs and their management teams.  The crux of the problem is depending too heavily on yesterday’s knowledge and experience.  A more suitable alternative in this turbulent world (herein referred to as the “Shift...

A headline in today’s Wall Street Journal reads, “Fed up: Texas

Executives at Main Street Bank are thinking outside of the box.  They’ve decided to die and come back to life in a new form.  They are reinventing themselves—outside of the state banking system.  Slipping the regulatory noose, they believe, will help them serve a cash starved business community. Paul Merskki of the Independent Community Bankers...

 Blindsided by the North American success of Apple’s I-phone and Google

’s android operating system, RIM (Research in Motion) the creators of Blackberry, are rebooting.  Investors have lost faith in the company that a just a few years ago, invented the smart phone market. To survive and prosper, in spite of fierce shift-age competition, there...