At the center of every organization is the collection of ideas, beliefs

, and cultural traits (collective habits).  Regardless of whether they were put there deliberately or whether anyone is conscious of their presence, habits do exist.  These beliefs powerfully but subtly impact the performance of every employee.   If a deliberate choice is not...

Successful organizations, like hurricanes, have a central core around

which everything revolves and toward which everything is focused. At the center are values (what the organization believes in) and vision (where the organization is going). Business plans and the hierarchy of organization charts make no sense in the “I” where the generation...

Values help people navigate successfully in unfamiliar territory. The

Nature hates vacuums, so the space between our ears is filling 24/7 with pictures of possible futures—whether we like it or not. According to Dr. Ronald Lippitt, before the age of five we were programmed negative at a ratio of 12:1. That means left to our own devices we will sense 12 negative possibilities to every positive. That ratio is necessary...

What qualifies an executive coach who authors business books and blog

My vision for this series of postings is to encourage effective leadership at home—help parents transform themselves and their children into vibrant “humans becoming”, rather than stagnant “humans being”, or worse yet,  mind-numbed “humans doing”. The secret to a fulfilled life at home, work, or out in the community...

You are a human becoming—not a human being.  You might ask, “a human

becoming what?”  That’s a question only you can answer, but rest assured, you are becoming something different than what you currently are (even a corpse changes daily).  I am a human becoming__________.  Fill in the gap, it’s up to you.  You influence your own destiny...

Uncertainty is the new normal in what futurist David Houle calls the “

shift-age.”  The world will continue to move under your feet.  Working harder will not assure survival. Unless you are in a recession proof industry such as healthcare or agriculture, odds are your company will continue to struggle with tight budgets, uncertain cash reserves...

Prelude:   Each Monday LSI presents a VIP profile…focusing on contributions

and the leadership strategy that led to success. Each post concludes using an equation that was initially presented in , The “I” of the Hurricane: How to generate and focus corporate energy. The following will help you understand the summary at the end of each...

Like most business owners, Dan Martucci’s  struggles with a faltering

economy  left him exhausted at the end of each day.  Usually a positive, charitable, and fun loving father, he realized that if he wasn’t carefu, recession pressure could indirectly impact his family.  He resolved to preserve his home as a safe and comforting sanctuary...

Our time is being referred to appropriately as the “shift-age”

Most CEOs were either raised in the industrial-age or mentored by people who were. Deeply imbedded industrial-age thinking allows ghosts from a bygone era to haunt and inhibit corporate performance. The negative impact is particularly severe on an increasingly important relationship between the CEO and marketing.  As the company’s primary forward...

Napoleon Bonaparte rose to prominence during the confusion and disorder

of the French Revolution.  At the time, France was being attacked by foreign armies on all sides, and plagued by internal power struggles.  The populace was deeply divided.  Many people were driven by revolutionary fervor while a large number of French citizens from all social...