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My forecast for 2024: Top five issues you need to pay attention to
I get to work with clients in many different industries and geographies every year. This experience cultivates a unique perspective…
Succeeding Success: How to Lead Boldly When Replacing a Respected Leader
How do you honor a predecessor’s legacy while leading boldly? Very few new executives would be excited to take the…
Guitar Licks and Leadership Tricks: Mastery Explored
They say that the guitar is the easiest instrument to learn but the most difficult to master. I recently picked…
Succession Success: Priming the Next Executive Leader
Bad news first: Most executive successions fail. The research tends to peg failure rates around 66% for small and medium-sized…
How to Get an Extra 20% in Performance with No New Staff, Customers, or Tools
Have you ever pulled a garden hose around your house to find it doesn’t reach as far as you thought?…
Why DEI and ESG aren’t Worth the Attention Paid to Them
In elementary school, I learned to be nice to others. Name-calling and bullying weren’t allowed. We were expected to include…
Why I Care About Leadership
Leadership Motivation When I was young, I had ideas about changing the world. So, I set out to do that….
Why a Vacation is One of the Most Responsible Actions a Leader Can Take
“Take a vacation.” This is my favorite advice to give to the owners or executives who are my clients. They…
What Do I Do if My Company is Outgrowing a Loyal Employee?
What To do When Your Company is Growing Faster than Your Team Growing a company is exciting. But it also…
It’s Hard Enough to Hire When Times are Good. How to Prepare to Sail Through Less-than-Ideal Staffing Challenges
If You Do this One Thing Well, You’ll Own Your Market For the foreseeable future companies that are able to…