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A Quick Note On What Management Is Based On

In any endeavor, management is important. I think too often the ideas of “management,” “leadership,” and “authority” aren’t clearly defined or they aren’t really greatly understood. Since I called this a quick note on management, management is built on 3 things: * Competence * Integrity * Performance Leadership and Authority have their foundations in different […]

The Most Important Question You Can Ask In Business…

You can ask a lot of questions in business, but the most important one you can ask is simple: Why? Why are our sales slipping? Why is our marketing not gaining traction? Why isn’t our leadership communicating effectively with all of our team members? Why can’t we innovate? Why can’t we grow more quickly? You […]

3 Steps To Turning Around Any Organization

I’ve been thinking about how to restructure and save organizations this morning and one of the clients I am working with is facing a reorganization. After going over the mission and thinking through the problems, we came up with a pretty easy solution that the board and managers could hang their hats on and […]

Are You A Leader?

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking on how to define leadership lately. (There’s a new project in the works, but I am not ready to reveal it yet. But soon.) Even after all of my reading and research the definition of what makes someone a great leader still is elusive. Which is funny because […]

What Do You Want To Hear

I’ve been toying with the idea of putting together an occasional podcast and I was wondering what you would like to hear? In the past I’ve done a few on sports and music, but nothing on business, marketing, leadership, etc. So if you have some ideas for guests or topics, fire them over. I’d love […]

A Couple of Quick Thoughts On Leadership

Over the past few posts, I have been giving you 3 tips on things I have been thinking about. While I was standing in line at Whole Foods this morning, I saw a book written by a Co-CEO of Whole Foods and that got me to thinking about leadership. So here are a few things […]

Convenience vs. Fidelity

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about leadership lately and how organizations, people, etc end up where they are. One of the most important questions you can ask yourself as you look to steer yourself or your organization to your goals and that’s whether or not you are going offer something that is convenient […]