Many people focus on high visibility actions to project their talent. They look for grand strategies, innovative products, and other marks of distinction. What they often overlook are the personal attributes – how they do things – that can undermine even the best of...
Do you know as much about your competitors as you do about your own organization? Whether you are a hard-driving business or a non-profit striving to do good, you need to know about your competition. By competition, I mean where else your ideal customers, investors,...
Managers waste precious time and energy anguishing over employees who don’t fit. Many managers will do almost anything to avoid the challenges and confrontation of making a change. As a result, their teams suffer. Vickie faced this issue with her ten-person team. A...
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” — Charles Beard, historian Do the obstacles you face fascinate you? Do they draw your interest to understand them more deeply? Do they motivate you to find solutions? Do you use them as springboards to...
