In an increasingly competitive world, businesses will not survive or grow

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The speaker at this  large aboriginal conference noticed attendees,

Clarence Louie is everything that was advertised and more.   Fortunately,  he is aboriginal himself. If someone else had said these things—for example, the white columnist standing in the back of the hall with his mouth open, they’d be viewed as racist. Instead, Chief Clarence Louie is considered one of the most interesting and innovative native...

They hang prominently on lobby walls, get published in annual reports,

and appear on most corporate websites.  When asked to recite their lofty declarations, too many managers have to extract them from desk drawers.   Corporate values…publishing them just seems like the right thing to do so PR firms rake in millions of dollars each year creating...

Futurist David Houle suggests that the next two decades will see many

“Companies wanting to lead in the shift age will make a 180 degree shift from a mindset of knowing to an attitude of not knowing—replacing a reliance on knowledge and experience with processes for finding out and taking action faster than the competition.”                                                                                                                                     ...

A sense of humor can be an emotional lifeline during turbulent times. 

The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Syria and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon,though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “ABit Cross.” The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz...

Remember the original cardboard 3-D glasses, the ones with a red and a

blue lens? If you looked through the left lens, you’d see the movie surrounded by red squiggly lines. The right lens produced blue lines around the same image. When you looked through both lenses, the movie seemed to jump off the screen at you. Management and leadership are inseparable...

Leadership is about what goes on within and between people whereas management

The “I” of life’s hurricanes are your core values.  When blown off course, leaders turn to what they believe to get centered.  They understand that vision represents values in the future tense —what people believe influences what they can and cannot see.  Leaders help followers clarify a set of cultural-values for the group—then meld them...

“I think leadership is more important than strategy—and I say

What he means is that the autocratic Philip Purcell, the meglomaniac Jeffrey Eisner, and the “queen of keynote” Carly Fiona were losers in terms of management style.  CEO’s like Terry Semel of Yahoo and Ed Zander of Motorola were “in,” according to James—whose search firm placed both CEO’s.  “Strategy is important...

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...