Although this post was written for married partners, the rules apply

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Today’s workplace doesn’t look like it did just a few years

ago — yet many people are operating from an industrial-age mindset that is no longer based on reality. Instead of looking at their job as a business relationship, they view coworkers as family. Instead of questioning their company’s direction and assessing the capability...

The digital revolution has eliminated the requirement for middle men. 

This transfer of power to field units has made middle officers obsolete.  In effect there is a “writing” component and an execution component…like the composer who creates music and scores it, so that players (think special force groups and their support units) are integrated in terms of pace and harmony.   The capacity to perform is the responsibility...

Many companies are trying to get and retain customers using an outdated

playbook.   The dominant factors determining corporate success cross traditional departmental functions.  Sales, service, and profit engage the entire company—there is no logical argument for the preservation of independent organizational silos.  Success is determined by...

 Understanding how leadership and management have morphed to accommodate

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

 I learned from that experience.  Long range planning is at best a waste of time and at worst dangerous.  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...

The role models that many CEOs emulate achieved success during an era

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It’s impossible to manage your way through the “shift-age”.  Behavioral

   “To manage” implies working within existing boundaries and constraints to make what exists more productive.  Working harder at the same old things in the same old way, is a losing proposition–designed for the slower moving and more predictable industrial-age.   Today’s winners will be those  first to discern and  act...

When CEOs select then consistently repeat “power words”  during internal

conversations with themselves or during discussions with others, they are not only describing, they are actually starting to create. Because humans live in language, it is critical to eliminate  negative dialogue.  I heard a formula one racer say,  “to win, you have...

Industrial age organizations operate using a chain of command structure

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