Resistance to ‘the new’ is not a bad thing. it’s a very

 Like Janus/January, look both ways, then decide to let something that’s no longer working for you go. Allow your fear and uncertainty to have its time. Wait for the “letting go” process to work don’t try and push a river. Wait for a new vision of the preferred future to appear. When it does, celebrate what has gone before, then welcome...

Frequent use of the BMS “jazz band to orchestra” metaphor has proven

helpful in explaining the transition towards process discipline.  i.e. “We will no longer be operating like a jazz band.  We’re on track to become a more disciplined, growth-oriented company.  Like musicians in an orchestra, you must learn to  play the music (task processes...

Few CEOs have an answer to this important question. Unfortunately, many

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You’ve heard that voice before.  The boo bird on your shoulder that

Humans are born with an awesome space between our ears.  Teachers referred to mine with great regularity. They meant to demean but were actually paying me a great compliment. Nature hates empty spaces and works hard to keep them filled.  The phenomenal capacity of the human brain to fill its empty space with imagined possibilities differentiates...

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...