Inform your manager and peers about what’s going on. In 1x1s, in email, in staff meetings, make sure you are giving updates and status on...

Dr. Robert Kuhn, who has 12 years experience in M&A and has worked with 15,000 companies and their CEOs, summarized 12 CEO Diseases and...

A mid-manager came up to me after a recent conference presentation and asked me how to convince his people – and even some executive...

I just got back from presenting at Visual Sciences event on "How to Put eBusiness in the Heart of Your Business." I’ll share some...

Such a consultant is Linda Ford, who shares a passion for culture and change leadership and has over 15 years of day-to-day management...

Prosci’s Change Management learning center features a report titledBest Practices in Change Management. As summarized by Be Excellent,...

This is a list I created some time ago of the ideal startup… Defendable and differentiated Competitive cost structure Attractive...

One of my favorite 'saved' books is Six Disciplines for Excellence by Gary Harpst. Here’s what differentiates this book: it bridges...

Rick Barnes, prior Head Basketball Coach for the UT Longhorns men’s basketball team, spoke to my team once about leadership. Here are...

Take, for example, the recurring natural theme of tributaries and branching You see this in rivers, branches, our nervous system, our...

Through startups and Dell, I’ve worked hundreds of partnerships with suppliers and vendors. Many of them succeeded, and many failed. I’ve...

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov There are two classes of...

Everyone matters to someone…and if you can’t think of anyone, you matter to your mom! But you can choose to matter more. Here are some of...

Is your company customer-centric? Have you unearthed customer needs. Do you hear the Voice of Customer? To find out, see how many...

Every company has disparate functions, such as sales, accounting, marketing, etc. And in large companies there are similar functions in...

One of the best management books I’ve ever read is First Break All the Rules. With that kind of endorsement I’m hoping Marcus Buckingham...

Patrick Lencioni has been a friend of my father's for years. I got to know him many years ago too, and he honored me by answering a few...

There's a revenue crisis. You need to do a business recovery. There are three choices: 1. Do nothing…i.e. keep on trucking, status quo....

Entrepreneur posted an article called 7 Habits for Business Success by Brian Tracy, exerpted from his book “Million Dollar Habits”....

Here’s what happened... Rock was a hard, seasoned pro. He threw weight into a problem and bulldozed through people to ‘make IT so’. “It”...