When To Say No To Good Things

Most people reach a point in their life when then have the discipline and core values to walk away from bad habits that they know will hurt them or their family.  However, I find the majority of people have an extremely difficult time walking away from the good so they can prioritize the best.  Until […]

When Team’s Get Stuck

One thing is for certain, at some point in time both leaders as individuals and their teams are going to lose momentum and stop being productive.  The critical next step is to be able to diagnose the correct reason or you will react and only make things worse.  This post by Mark Miller gives several […]

When Your Kids Don’t Want To Be With You

No, this is not about the greatest news you have ever heard and they have all quote left the nest.  Sorry, the real news is that parenting never ends and to me that is an incredibly good thing.  Too many times we place our own emotional needs on top of our children and thats not […]

Why Most Meetings Aren’t Needed

We have all endured our share of long, boring and unproductive meetings.  In reality, I have lead many of them and may be more of the problem than the solution.  The transition from a positional model of leadership to a more participatory model is driving some of this problem.  This post by Brad Lomenick was […]

3 Critical Elements Of Time Management

The great misnomer about this subject is we really don’t manage time we prioritize it. However, there are some really good questions that we should be asking ourselves about how we spend our time on in reality waste it.  Anything I can read on this subject always helps this and this post by Ron Edmondson […]