Who you walk with can make or break your company…..and your career. Proverbs13:20 says, “Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.” So, who are you walking with? Everyone, especially leaders, needs peers and trusted advisors that they can lean on. By God’s grace, with great teammates, and allot…
Success is great. It’s rewarding. It’s the culmination of hard work. Except when it isn’t what you are experiencing, when you are caught in the whirlwind of a downturn, a market change, or the results of poor decision making. I will never forget the Great Recession of 2007-2009. We thought we were positioned well for…
A year and a half ago I shared the email copy I’ve included below about my dad’s journey in life, starting with his time in the Netherlands during WWII, ending in a nursing home in the USA. I have never received as much positive feedback regarding a post as I did with this one. I…
Individually and collectively, we perform at a much higher level when we hold ourselves and others accountable. This isn’t about being a pest or “big brother”, but it is about coming to agreement regarding what we hope to accomplish, and should be tied, ultimately, to where we hope to be in the future. I have…
Have you ever worked for an organization whose cultural walk didn’t match their talk? This can be a maddening experience. You may have been attracted to the team because of the values they publicized or the awards they received. Your personal values and culture probably resonated with the team you were joining, and you were anticipating…
You will react better individually and corporately to challenges and opportunities if you regularly engage in strategic and operational planning. Really. Establishing a strategic plan is vitally important for organizational health. It gets everyone focused on where we are going, pointing the entire team’s arrows in the same direction, aligning our staff around a common cause. The planning process and…
You will react better individually and corporately to challenges and opportunities if you regularly engage in strategic and operational planning. Really. Establishing a strategic plan is vitally important for organizational health. It gets everyone focused on where we are going, pointing the entire team’s arrows in the same direction, aligning our staff around a common cause. The planning process and…
Fact………Collective Genius brings us farther, faster, and higher than our Individual Genius. This is counter to how we all grew up. We competed for the best grades in our class. We strove to make the sports team by competing against others. We took standardized tests to try and get into the college or university of…
A better question to ask may be “do the leaders of your organization treat team members like owners”? As a leader, I always wanted my teams to act like owners because, when they did, in general they made the right decisions. When my team’s acted as owners they were making the most significant cultural impact…
I asked a client if they had a financial engine and if it was running well. They looked at me with a bit of a puzzled look, questioning what I was asking. The reason I asked the question is that they had one line of business, but they were looking to expand it and start…