The recent shootings in Aurora Colorado caused many to reflect on the

issues of trust and fear. Trust usually commands very little of our attention—even though it often involves matters of life and death. For example; we put faith in the weight bearing capacity of a ladder, we assume that fellow drivers will stay in their lane.  We trust that pharmaceutical...

The late Stephen Covey left us a significant legacy–namely his best

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Organizations achieve dominance by introducing unique ways of doing business

that the market perceives as adding value. A timely innovation often changes the rules of the game.  But success can be a precursor to failure.  Many innovators find themselves wedded to ideology that blinds them to changing market conditions or competitors making inroads...

Management science and technology have combined to produce a “mega change

” in stereo.  Adaptations of digital technology allow us to:  create, transmit, compute, store, and retrieve data in ways that have marginalized time and distance as barriers to entry.  This revolution has catapulted us into Marshall McLuhan’s global village.  We are...

“It’s the right thing to do.”  Most organizations have their values

posted prominently on boardroom walls, websites, and in annual reports.  Unfortunately, too many CEOs consider the “values thing” complete once PR professionals wordsmith an attractive centerpiece for the corporate table.  Unfortunately, just like a table centerpiece at...

At times, even the best run companies face critical situations at times

.  Having coached over twenty CEOs through recession, I’ve been up close and personal with both winners and losers.   There are lessons to be learned.Winners reinvent themselves faster than their competition. Ahead of the curve, they perpetually cull marginally performing;...

Entrepreneurs typically run into trouble after they get their new venture

launched.  The character traits and behavioral patterns required to focus an idea and bring it to market have nothing in common with what it takes to transform embryonic enterprise into sustainable business. As a coach to the CEOs of fortune companies, my first objective was...

Since 1900, many psychologists have contributed to the process of managing

  SigmundFreud (1856-1939), was one of the first to postulate the existence of an inner world, something he called ‘the  unconscious’, that drives what human beings do-something we hold today as obvious as gravity. He is considered the creator of ‘psycho-analysis’ and his concepts of Superego, Ego and Id led almost directly...

By any measure, “The Hunger Games” is a smash hit, breaking records

The movie defies categorization:  Survivor + Gladiator + 1984 + Coal Miner’s Daughter with a PG-13 rating.  There is more going on here than just a mash up of unlikely genres.  Like one of Katniss Everdeen’s high tech arrows, this story strikes at the heart of the millennial’s cherished values.  Here are just a few of the ways “Hunger Games...

We would not be here as a species if learning and change had not taken

Imagine a group of Neanderthals, sitting around their fire in the cave, when ‘Karg’, the most free-thinking of the hunters, using whatever grunts and motions he had available, speaks to his fellows. ‘You know, guys, we got the mastodon today, but I wonder how we could kill them without losing so many of us in the process?!’...