May 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Many leaders are amazing abstract thinkers. It is what makes them visionaries. It is what makes them inspiring. But all good leaders have the ability to make the abstract into reality. To actually accomplish the vision. To me what sets the good leaders apart from the...
May 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
In this post, when I refer to leader, I am referring to the CEO, or where the buck stops for the organization. Other leadership positions within an organization are important, but are still dependent on the leader and the degree to which he or she succeeds in these...
Apr 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
This is advice I give from my life of experience so far. I will add that it is a terribly difficult thing to do. Malcolm Galdwell famously wrote in his book, Outliers, that it takes a person 10,000 hours to get to expert status. Rudy Giuliani is famous for focusing on...
Mar 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
So here we are at the end of March. A quarter into the year and it’s time to analyze. How have we done? Have we met our goals, exceeded them, fallen short?I heard a podcast from Andy Stanley, a pastor from the United States, where he stated he likes the concept of...
Mar 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
In Simon Sinek’s book “It Starts with Why” he does a great job of inspiring us through both story and science about the importance of purpose for our organizations, and really ourselves.I have spent much of the last year using this current take on...
Jan 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
I am a huge believer in the principle of sowing and reaping. But you have read that here before.One of the things that is also important is finding a way to aggregate the information that comes form activity (sowing) and collating into useful data buckets (part of...
