Gary Griffin, is CEO of B&I Contractors in Fort Meyers Florida. 

 “Having skin in the game creates a different attitude” he said, “empowered employees have helped B&I weather severe recessionary pressures.  Like most businesses in Florida, B&I  had to make tough choices—but they survived and are now posturing for success in what is being called the shift age.  “ESOP is not all sweetness and...

In an increasingly competitive world, businesses will not survive or grow

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The speaker at this  large aboriginal conference noticed attendees,

Clarence Louie is everything that was advertised and more.   Fortunately,  he is aboriginal himself. If someone else had said these things—for example, the white columnist standing in the back of the hall with his mouth open, they’d be viewed as racist. Instead, Chief Clarence Louie is considered one of the most interesting and innovative native...

On February 4-11, 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin came together

for a conference at Yalta to decide the shape and fate of Central and Eastern Europe. In what many call a ‘sell-out’, Roosevelt gave in to Stalin’s insistence that Russia be given de facto control over the countries falling inside what he considered a ‘safety...

Today’s post   is not intended to be partisan although many readers

The mess we are in was not caused by presidents, members of congress, the judiciary, or constitutional tenets.  Rather it is being caused by a combination of; the untoward influence of special interest groups, a disregard for economic reality (most  politicians and a plethora of their advisors have no personal business experience),  dysfunctional...

They hang prominently on lobby walls, get published in annual reports,

and appear on most corporate websites.  When asked to recite their lofty declarations, too many managers have to extract them from desk drawers.   Corporate values…publishing them just seems like the right thing to do so PR firms rake in millions of dollars each year creating...

Core values are personal distillations of what you’ve learned to date

.  They form a perceptual screen through which you view and make sense of the world.  A huge challenge for athletic coaches, orchestra leaders, and last but not least, business owners, is to develop a solid foundation of ‘cultural-values’ that will support a peak performance...

Is community building best served by promoting a sense of trust or a sense

of fear? Trust commands little of our attention—even though matters of life and death are often involved. We put faith in the weight bearing capacity of ladders, we assume that our fellow drivers will stay in their lane, and we trust that pharmaceutical companies have adequately...

culture (collective habits) is the key to prosperityOpinion in Wall Steet

Journal of August 6th presented a contribution  by Richard Landres titled; Romney is right on Culture and the Wealth of Nations.  He makes a strong case regarding the impact that culture has on prosperity.  Richard’s perspective has much to offer beyond the current presidential...

We have evolved into what futurist David Houle calls the “Shift Age”.  

I recently talked with Bob Riddell who heads up the business consulting division of Tribridge: a successful IT services firm (2012 Microsoft Dynamics Worldwide Partner of the Year) headquartered in Tampa, FL.  No doubt, they will continue their winning ways, but the Tribridge leadership team has charged Bob with expanding their heritage of selling...