building for future generationsToday’s posting is outside of the

LSI inspirational-leadership/process-discipline box.  After some trepidation, I decided to post it because it relates to values…the foundation of culture.  We will be looking at the national, not a  corporate level.  Rather than express my views directly, I’ve couched...

Entering a market when everybody else is cutting back doesn’t make

sense—on the surface.  But Andrew Wright, founder and CEO of Franklin Street Financial, saw opportunity where the competition could see only demise.  His Tampa based company grew in excess of 400% last year.  What Andrew did is less relevant then how he thinks.  The foundation...

VISION: the corporate north starExecutives inhibited by industrial-age

In this faster paced era, plans and goals alone are of little value—because they lack the power to change.  Inspirational-leadership is required to overcome employee resistance.  In the face of turbulence and uncertainty, organizations must redirect their long term focus from the business plan to a corporate vision.  Changes in plans experience...

what you believe is where you are goingMuch of the attitudinal and behavioral

dysfunction on shop floors and in our offices is the consequence of conditioning.  Prior to the 60’s, societal discipline came from a code of ethics framed by the constitution—we were a nation of laws. I believe that our historical conformance to the “rule of the law...

The term to lead implies inspiring yourself and/or others to move towards

a new place or different way of being.  This is accomplished by people at all levels working at, and recognizing each other for, activities that align with the organization’s cultural values, statement of purpose, and vision.  Following are 10 steps that will help you  make...

Fierce competition, inherent in the “shift-age”, is making innovation

a primary survival factor.  The capacity to create has already started separating the winners from losers.  Effective innovation demands the application of both art and science.  Success depends on being centered between the two.   Effective people and organizations inhabit...

People who still view life through an industrial-age perspective can&#

Digital technology allows us to break up-transmit-and reassemble data.  This affords instant communication with no loss of quality and the unprecedented capacity to store and retrieve information.  Its predecessor transmitted information in tact.  The properties of analog communication transmission are structural—much like industrial age machinery...