Pull The Trigger
There may be nothing harder to do as a leader than make the decision to terminate an employee. To be honest we feel to some degree we have failed and that is hard to accept. This is especially true if we hired the person in the first place. Not only have they failed but now […]
How The Mighty Fall
Jim Collins has recently released his new book on How The Mighty Fall because of all the once great companies that are now a shadow of what they used to be. He writes, “Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does […]
The Nostalgia Of The Past
Most of us are over scheduled and have way too much stress in our lives. As a reaction to the pressure of the present we often find ourselves looking back and longing for a time when life was simpler and slower than it is today. What we selectively seem to forget is that the past […]
Role Of Short Term Wins
One of the major mistakes we make in major change initiatives is that we oversell the long term goal at the expense of dealing with the short term realities. People do want to know where they are going but they want to know even more what does all this mean for me right now? Once […]
Promises We Make
This is the seventh in a series of ten posts on promises we should be willing to make to the people that matter the most in our lives. A promise goes beyond a mere commitment to do something it carries the clear expectation that we are going to pay the price to do what we […]