Most new CEOs set a priority for having clear job descriptions (for

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Attending to the needs of a dog is challenging.  Why are they considered

Inject productive ritual into our lives:  The caring routine keeps us “out there”, safely experiencing life.  Being there for or with a friend, opens the door to serendipity (what happens while we are busy doing something else).  For example, if you weren’t out walking the dog, you may not have noticed a beautiful sunset or met the new neighbor...

The Western world embraces personal freedom but a growing segment of the

This attitude is creating pawns out of people the constitution empowers to be the masters of Government.  The general population’s ambivalence towards politics finds everybody complaining but few willing to step up and participate in the democratic process.  With civics not being taught in many schools, young adults often grow up knowing little...

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...

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...

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...

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...

As a parent, I know the agony of watching children leave the nest unprepared

—an  opinion they did not share at the time.  There are many pitfalls and traps along life’s way and I wanted to protect them from serious mistakes.  They wanted to leave before I felt they were ready and I tried to hang on long after they’d already gone.  There comes...

 I was impacted by yesterday’s post in Branding Strategy Insider

, titled “Building trust in your brand”. It took me back to the days when as CEO of Achieve, I coached high powered executives all over the world. The first character trait I wanted to clarify was, does this person live at the extreme (either end) of their trust continuum...