When I started my career I worked in the “worldwide headquarters” of a manufacturing company in Chicago. Only the CEO and a small handful of the top execs had access to the strategic plan, copies o...... Read More
It is almost mid-year and you can feel the business cycle getting faster. What if your leaders had significantly higher goal achievement and displayed the leadership competencies needed to take you...... Read More
Whenever I write about multigenerational teams in the workplace, I get a lot of feedback. Lately, the comments focus on Millennials (ages 38-27): “They play with their phones in meetings—it drives ...... Read More
Someone once said to me, "Gen Z'ers are just Millennials on steroids. They're just mini-Millennials." Au contraire! Just when we thought we were beginning to understand Millennials, we need to lea...... Read More
Top-performing companies understand just how critical the workplace culture is to their success, so they’re intentional and systematic about how they create, drive, and describe their cultures. The...... Read More
Senior leadership, reacting to changing demands from the marketplace, is looking for faster, better ways to solve problems, open new markets, and grow business. One effective strategy is to tear d...... Read More
If there is one thing that we have learned about Millennials and Gen Xers, it is, ”If you don’t train them, they will leave.” Or worse: they will stay and our organizations will fall behind the com...... Read More
In a marketplace with rapidly changing business requirements, where quality, service and innovation have become mere "tickets to play," and disruptive technology, global competitors, and the rate o...... Read More
Someone once said to me, “Gen Zers are just Millennials on steroids. They’re just mini-Millennials.” Au contraire! Just when we thought we were beginning to understand Millennials, we need to lear...... Read More
No organization wants to accidentally select as CEO the business equivalent of George Donner, who in 1847 led a group of settlers on a journey to California, only to have them become snowbound, sta...... Read More
