Experts are giving more credence to genetics and the gender gap.  Professional

opinion has finally caught up to what rational human beings have known since Adam took it in the ribs.  There are significant differences between men and women. Job performance is influenced—for example, women test stronger in pattern recognition, men appear stronger...

CEOs can secure corporate viability during growth by picking up the baton

Like jazz groups, successful small companies create a dedicated following because a limited number of players are in tune with the founder’s vision. They know their strengths and limitations, cover for each other, become experts at shooting from the hip, changing direction on the fly, and multi-tasking—in short, they are capable and prepared to...

A common shortcoming of management is the inability or unwillingness to

A frequent mistake by well intentioned CEOs and HR directors is to have managers attend internal or external classroom training.  As the founder and former CEO of Achieve (now part of Achieve Global), I can attest that “just in case” training is a waste of time and money.  A system (such as the above) must be established.  A peak performance...

My dream was to be outstanding in my field.  I finally made it.  That

Many of my childhood chums had chosen to live their entire lives in the environmental masterpiece that, although I left as a teenager, never stopped calling home.  When my school chums and I got together, we reflected on our differing career paths.  The talkee usually ended up with his/her eyes glazed over, listening wistfully and somewhat enviously...

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...

Successful organizations, like hurricanes, have a central core around

which everything revolves and toward which everything is focused. At the center are values (what the organization believes in) and vision (where the organization is going). Business plans and the hierarchy of organization charts make no sense in the “I” where the generation...

Your grandparents did not work for organizations like the one you work

Everyone and everything is moving all the time. As companies jockey for position, mergers and acquisitions become the fastest way to secure temporary security and grow market share. ‘Job security’ has come to mean moving rapidly from one company to another. My oldest son, who plays lead guitar in his rock band, told me, ‘Dad, no one...

Political correctness is dampening the human spirit at work, at home,

and out in the community. Life is tough enough without imposing  language filters on each other. Relying on your own sense of what’s right and wrong when making language choices is risky, but don’t let political correctness blind you from  laughing at life’s humorous side...

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...