CEO Barry Wolfson refers to this sixty five year old familybusiness as

, “the oldest startup in history”. How does a locally focused company “break through” to become an international player with multiple distribution channels, including major retail chains? The surface answer is; by developing an innovative product of unsurpassed quality...

In response to a  June 21st blog:  www.BrandingStrategyInsider.com (

My work with Fortune list CEOs on the pragmatic use of values, revealed that bad (unethical) behavior, typically correlates directly with CEO priorities—expressed explicitly or implicitly.  Bad behavior is capable of producing short term gains (an infusion of cash flow), but invariably concludes in long term pain; (the destruction or a reduction...

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...

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...

 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 has given us a never ending stream of valuable ideas, tools and processes...

Is there a difference between owning and managing a business? You bet

there is! I learned about managing during a fifteen year telecommunications industry career that culminated as a Director of Sales and Marketing. When I left to start my own management consulting company it wasn’t surprising that I focused exclusively on major corporations—I...

Nature hates empty spaces, and works hard to keep them filled. The phenomenal

Have you ever watched a tiger at the zoo? All its needs were being met; food, safety, free health care, and for a lucky few…a dating service. But like all caged creatures, it was dull-furred, dim eyed, and lethargic. Activity was relegated to pacing back and forth within its unnatural confine. Compare that sorry looking animal to its wild cousins...