“To start a business, the CEO must be everything.  To grow a business

Radically shifting markets, a plethora of price challenging products, ever changing technology, and the unrelenting hand of time are making the aging owners of small to mid size businesses (SMBs) vulnerable. For many of them, this is a new and uncomfortable mindset. Fiercely independent, hard working, and resilient, the majority of SMB owners  have...

At the center of every organization is the collection of ideas, beliefs

, and cultural traits (collective habits).  Regardless of whether they were put there deliberately or whether anyone is conscious of their presence, habits do exist.  These beliefs powerfully but subtly impact the performance of every employee.   If a deliberate choice is not...

To survive and prosper in what is being referred to as the “shift

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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...

What qualifies an executive coach who authors business books and blog

My vision for this series of postings is to encourage effective leadership at home—help parents transform themselves and their children into vibrant “humans becoming”, rather than stagnant “humans being”, or worse yet,  mind-numbed “humans doing”. The secret to a fulfilled life at home, work, or out in the community...

 I was impacted by yesterday’s post in Branding Strategy Insider

, titled “Building trust in your brand”. It took me back to the days when as CEO of Achieve, I coached high powered executives all over the world. The first character trait I wanted to clarify was, does this person live at the extreme (either end) of their trust continuum...

The “shift-age” is ushering in fierce competition for market

While beta testing a management system designed to help SMB owners create transferable wealth and wisdom,  I worked with several smaller companies who were offering customers a boutique experience. Many of these owners were reluctant to fully embrace process-discipline. They preferred operating with the flexibility of a jazz band (playing by ear)...

Prelude:   Each Monday LSI presents a VIP profile…focusing on contributions

and the leadership strategy that led to success. Each post concludes using an equation that was initially presented in , The “I” of the Hurricane: How to generate and focus corporate energy. The following will help you understand the summary at the end of each...

Our time is being referred to appropriately as the “shift-age”

Most CEOs were either raised in the industrial-age or mentored by people who were. Deeply imbedded industrial-age thinking allows ghosts from a bygone era to haunt and inhibit corporate performance. The negative impact is particularly severe on an increasingly important relationship between the CEO and marketing.  As the company’s primary forward...

Prelude:   Each Monday LSI presents a VIP profile…focusing on contributions

and the leadership strategy that led to success. Each post concludes using an equation that was initially presented in my book, The “I” of the Hurricane: How to generate and focus corporate energy. The following will help you understand the conclusion summary...