The Power of Vision
My home town for all practical purposes is Tuscumbia, Alabama. Our number one and only claim to fame is we are the birthplace of Helen Keller. On CNN web site recently there was a story about researchers who had uncovered this rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 […]
Termination
This is not a pleasant subject either for the person who needs to go or for the person who made the wrong decision to bring them on the team. It requires courage and it must be done well or the moral of the entire organization can suffer. I always feel to some degree as a […]
The 6 Ways To Grow A Company
This post by Gino Chirio is a gold mine in so many critical areas: strategy, innovation and process improvement. The tension today between lowering cost through process improvement and how many priorities should be directed toward innovation is what makes companies win or fail. I promise the graph alone is worth the read: “The term […]
How To Get A Life Worth Living
All of us have things in our lives we would like to do differently. We tell ourselves that someday we will make the changes that will produce the kind of life we really want. Then outside demands increase and we buy into the this is only temporary lie again. If you don’t have the courage […]
Creating Margin
A simple definition of margin is the space between our load and our limits. It is the opposite of overload because you will have something in reserve for a time when you will need it. Richard Swenson wrote an incredible book entitled Margin to help us learn how to restore emotional, physical, financial and time […]