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I know you. I know your kids. I know your partner. I know what you do at work. I know what you don’t do at work for want of time. I know what you do at home. Like a circus performer, I watch you juggle - keeping all of those...

Keep Going. We are all trying to figure out how to live our lives, run our businesses, and survive in another “new normal”, this time in a COVID-19 world. Having passed through the three initial stages of denial, anger, and acceptance at the beginning of this crisis, we are now...

Knowledge, with its wide classifications, can be classified into individual and collective knowledge. Executives recruit followers based on their individual knowledge which refers to the individual’s skills, prior-knowledge, and proficiencies or sometimes referred to competencies. Collective knowledge is part of the executive’s protocol and comes fairly natural at the higher...

Do you have a strong sense of purpose? Can you write down your personal purpose statement in a single sentence or two? An article from Harvard Business Review points out that “fewer than 20 percent of leaders have a strong sense of their own individual purpose. Even fewer can distill...

Kim Scott, a workplace consultant, recently wrote in a Wall Street Journal article, “Everyone will remember how their boss responded during this time.” Kim is absolutely correct. At any time – in crisis mode or otherwise – all behaviors of the leader mold team culture. However, during a crisis, the...

How exactly would you define a crisis in your business?  A key employee quits? An employee becomes ill? A team member has something happen at home that keeps them away?  What happens when an employee cries out that they cannot handle their workload? What is it exactly that keeps you...

As markets continue to fluctuate in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders at businesses of all sizes might be wondering whether a recession is on the horizon. And despite a generally bullish picture painted by analysts at Goldman Sachs and other money managers at the start of 2020, many models now portray...

The challenges that lay ahead are no match for the will and perseverance of the American spirit. This belief has never been truer than it is today. Today, the coronavirus is having a profound impact on our world economy, on American business and production. It is challenging the capacity of...

At some point in your career, as you become more experienced, successful or otherwise in demand, you may be presented with the opportunity to become a CEO, C-level or other senior executives.  Whether the job offer is within your own company, or from another company, your employer may want you...

The benefits of a modern technology infrastructure are attractive. And there are rewards such as business insights, greater efficiencies and cost savings to be gained by getting the implementation right. But great technology implementations can be complex. Getting it right can take hard work and time.  This is because all...