Work-Life Balance
If there has ever been a day when the demands of work and home have been greater I am not aware of it. The sheer pace of life today leaves us emotionally and physically worn out and feeling empty at the end of most days. Technology keeps us connected all the time and people in […]
How The Mighty Fall
Jim Collins follows up his all time best selling leadership book Good to Great with this incredible new work on why some of these once great companies now have fallen as well. He writes, “Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world […]
Moving Beyond Significance
We owe a great deal to several authors who have written excellent books on how to move from success as the primary goal in your life to real significance. Probably the book Half Time by Bob Buford has made the most life changing impact with people who have worked very hard to be professionally successful […]
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 […]
Characteristics Of An Effective Vision
When we think of the word vision we are drawn to a picture of the future of how things can be better than they are in the present. Most vision casting does a good job of painting a hopeful image of the positive benefits involved but not a very realistic job of the costs involved […]