In Search For Silver Bullet
In Jim Collins latest book How The Mighty Fall he talks about companies that start on a systematic downward spiral that leads ultimately to total failure as an organization. One common problem he found is that when they finally realize they are in serious trouble rather than dealing with real problems they search for the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Time vs. Timing
When we all think about the concept of time we tend to focus on the immediate and what needs to be done right now. Timing on the other hand takes the long look and always wants to ask the question why am I really doing this? That pause to look beyond what I need or […]