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...

“To start a business, the CEO must be everything.  To grow a business

Radically shifting markets, a plethora of price challenging products, ever changing technology, and the unrelenting hand of time are making the aging owners of small to mid size businesses (SMBs) vulnerable. For many of them, this is a new and uncomfortable mindset. Fiercely independent, hard working, and resilient, the majority of SMB owners  have...

My late wife’s last Christmas wish was to share this story and hopefully

 My wife and I have always loved the holiday season, but this year our exposure to hustle & bustle is restricted to watching doctors and dedicated nurses save lives.  There are only five more shopping days to Christmas and I am writing from a thoracic surgery ward.  Between each line, I watch helplessly as my love struggles valiantly to survive...

The poem, Beowulf , written in Old English sometime before the tenth century

A.D., describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century.   Beowulf , the oldest surviving epic in British literature, exists in only one manuscript. This copy survived both the wholesale destruction of religious artifacts during the dissolution...

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...

An indigenous American, Chief Seattle (1780 – 1866) gave a widely

publicized speech arguing in favor of ecological responsibility. His iconic quote, “important decisions should be made through the eyes of seven generations—from great grandfather to great grandchild” has retained its appeal because a critically important question is left...

Recently Yahoo fired its CEO, Carol Bartz. Although the company’s stock

Yahoo’s problem is that  web portals are yesterday’s news. People don’t need a single site to click through multiple menus and sub-menus to find what they’re looking for. Search engines like Google deliver more precise results. Yahoo no longer gives web users a compelling reason to visit their site.Yahoo is still a popular site in terms...

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...

After 20 years of coaching CEOs from corporations large and small and

in several countries, I believe a differentiating factor in the long term success of busy executives is their ability to stay in touch with the five year old that resides in every adult body.  Responsibilities often burry our inner child under layers of  “shoulds”—...

Robin Hood has been celebrated as a hero since the 12th century. More

Redistribution of wealth, under any name is criminal, immoral, unjust, and plain stupid.  It has never worked, as the rich only have so much that can be stolen.  Wall street occupiers, although busy, seem willing to contribute nothing short of outstretched hands to improve the nation’s economic ills.  Additional wealth  is not being created...