July 2014

November 3, 2022

Preparing for the Unexpected: Building Organizational Resilience

A notice was posted on the door as I entered Chipotle this week. It warned me that that chicken was currently available as their transportation system […]
October 27, 2022

Making Meetings Matter

“Meetings are usually toxic because they often convey an abysmally small amount of information per minute”.[1] Have you ever felt this way? Having sat through many […]
October 20, 2022

The Leadership Elephant

I’ll start with a simple confession – I’ve read far too much on the subject of leadership. While I’m at it, here’s confession number two – […]
July 29, 2014

Gamified Life: Gaming goes mainstream

It was a hot summer day and our teenagers and their friends were playing in our pool. As I observed them, I grasped how video games have […]
July 22, 2014

Weird Al Parodies Business Management with ‘Mission Statement’ – Will You Laugh or Cry?

Weird Al Yankovich has been providing us with musical parodies for over three decades. His most recent release, Mission Statement, pokes fun at the jargon we use […]
July 18, 2014

Whose Call is This?: Creating Decision Making Clarity

Does your team understand who has the responsibility to make a decision? A key source of office conflict is related to lack of clarity in decision […]
July 14, 2014

Open Source Life

In June 2014 the CEO of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, made a surprising announcement, “…in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of […]
July 7, 2014

Rules for Living in the Digital Age (According to Wired Magazine)

In the July issue of Wired magazine, they offered up their “Guide to behavior, manners and style” for those of us who live part of our […]