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January 13, 2022

Income Equality: 17 Things to Watch

A number of years ago I discovered a funny term called the GINI index. While it sounds rather technical, it is a fairly simple measurement which […]
January 6, 2022

Foresight: The Organizational Alternative to Fight or Flight

It has been said that those who fail to plan, plan to fail. While I believe this statement to be trite and overused, I am also […]
December 30, 2021

The Impact of Baby Boomers

The worldwide demographic is changing, and the world’s population is getting older. The longer life spans of this generation will allow people to travel and work […]
June 2, 2015

Becoming a Future-Ready Organization: Moving Your Dot

This week I have the privilege of conducting some workshops with higher education professionals in Florida at the NACCAP ‘15 conference. I will be speaking about […]
May 19, 2015

The Pichette Scale: Assessing Work/Life Balance

“After nearly seven years as CFO, I will be retiring from Google to spend more time with my family”. This was how Patrick Pichette, one of […]
May 8, 2015

When 60.2% Means Success: Coaching Excellence

Our business lives are full of rhetoric like ‘give 110%’, ‘be the best’ or ‘leave it all on the table’. However, often our best falls well short […]
May 5, 2015

Which Energy Company is Masquerading as an Automaker?

“Tesla isn’t a car company; it’s a battery company” (Montenegro). Last summer I blogged about Tesla’s ground-breaking decision to make all their Tesla automobile patents public […]
April 24, 2015

The Digital Natives are Eating My Norms!

Eight years ago we bought our first flat-screen television. About a month after this purchase my eight year old boldly told me that we needed another one […]
April 15, 2015

Playoff Leadership

When sports teams make it to the playoffs they often speak of the need to play at a higher level. Players and coaches refer to it […]
April 13, 2015

Pobody’s Nerfect – Embracing Imperfection

“We didn’t design the new Wired [on-line magazine] to be perfect. We designed it to be perfected” (Scott Dadich). Wired magazine recently launched a new web […]
April 6, 2015

Chess Not Checkers: Book Review

Books which help leaders elevate their game are not unusual. However, Chess Not Checkers enters this busy arena promising new insights. So does it succeed?  The publisher of […]
April 1, 2015

Procrastination: The Five Reasons We Do It!

Today we are going to examine the top 5 reasons we procrastinate: Problems with… Failure to… Concerns over… Difficulty… An inability to.. I apologize – I had good […]