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How often have you suffered through an endless, boring team meeting? The clock seems to go backwards. A 90-minute agenda, if there is one, takes a half-day to cover. People drink bottomless cups of coffee hoping to stay engaged. When the meeting is over, a jailbreak ensues. Eight people contribute four days of time with […]
October 29, 2010
Ronald Reagan has been an inspiration to countless millions the world over. Nicknamed the Great Communicator, he had the ability to deliver moving speeches that touched the hearts of the masses with their direct style, humor and sincerity. During his long career in politics, he gave a great many speeches – some of which rose […]
October 25, 2010
Leaders do nothing more important than get results. But you can’t get results by yourself. You need others to help you do it. And the best way to have other people get results is not by ordering them but motivating them. Yet many leaders fail to motivate people to achieve results because those leaders misconstrue […]
October 18, 2010
Over a year ago when I was visiting my very favorite bookstore (the Upstart Crow, in San Diego’s Seaport Village), I saw a book titled Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way. Because I am a fan of Mrs. Roosevelt, I knew I had to grab it, but then something happened and distracted me, and I left […]
October 15, 2010
There are times that people in the workplace are very active and very passionate with what they are doing. Those are times of boom and amazing productivity. Yet, there are also times that motivation is low. Morale reaches rock bottom and the people simply lose their focus in working. When this happens, the output is […]
October 11, 2010
It has been said that one person cannot motivate another. Motivation comes from within each person. Motivation is an individual desire. It is up to the individual to motivate themselves to set goals, try, succeed, learn and grow, to move forward. Leaders create an environment that inspires others. It is with this inspiration that motivation […]
October 8, 2010
Are you a leader or a manager – is there a difference? Do you know what it is? Does it matter? Whilst there is much emphasis on the management aspect of change, much of the underlying cause of the catastrophic 70% failure rate in ALL change initiatives is directly attributable to a lack of leadership…. […]
October 5, 2010
It was not long ago that Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) seemed doomed to failure. Kmart, its largest outlet for licensed household products, was in Chapter 11 and closing hundreds of stores. Its magazine was being challenged by the new upstart competitor by rival Rosie O’Donnell. Major television stations were canceling their daily show and […]
September 25, 2010
A particular manager re-wrote one of her team members’ business memos in order to create a higher level of detail, clarity and succinctness, not wanting the crux of the message to go awry. When she’d finished, in conferring with the more junior employee, it was discovered that she’d so completely re-engineered the communiqué that much that […]
September 20, 2010
Effective leadership is necessary for any organization to succeed. Hundreds if not thousands of books have been written explaining the necessity for this key success element in business. Yet, far fewer books have presented a common sense approach using straight talk while providing some immediate strategies to help befuddled executives, small business owners, enterprising entrepreneurs […]
Leadership Lessons 
November 1, 2010
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