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...

Much can be learned from what it takes to elevate a male chorus to world

-class status and keep it there. The talent and the hard work of individual singers, although essential, will not suffice.  Success demands the shaping of a “peak performance” *culture.  The leader, along with personal talent, drive, and commitment, must move the group away...

Handing over or inheriting control of a family business requires planning

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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...

Innovative technologies and new management processes come and go, but

the principles of effective leadership have remained constant throughout the ages. That’s because they are founded on timeless truths regarding what goes on within and between people. Management science however continues to deliver a never ending stream of time saving and quality...

Eli Goldratt, a world-class physicist, used his scientific prowess to

study a failing manufacturing plant owned by his brother. Findings turned the business around and inspired Eli to write a best-selling book called The Goal where he introduced his “Theory of Key .Constraint.”  Unfortunately,  rigid organizational structures and chain...

Should the owners of small to midsize businesses be worried about the

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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...

Following the Civil War in America (1861-1965), industrialization went

rampant. Large factories started dotting the landscape where farms had stood before. Machines, the exciting new technology, were promising to make business owners wealthier than ever—if only they could ‘get those lazy and greedy front line workers to use those machines to their...

CEOs face many watershed moments when the value of an established partner

, major account, product, supplier, bank, or employee is questionable.  IN my 35 years of coaching the CEOs of large and midsize businesses, I have witnessed a recurring and consistently costly hesitation to sever unproductive relationships—even when metrics and gut feelings...