Leadership

June 30, 2022

Customer Service – The Ritz-Carlton Way

Today’s blog contains a summary of a presentation about customer service. These ideas were delivered by Donald Lenahan, the Director of Hotel Operations at the Ritz-Carlton […]
June 23, 2022

Why is leading through change important?

The Kodak story reminds us that ongoing organizational success is earned and cannot be assumed. Once heralded as the global leaders in photography, their inability to […]
June 16, 2022

Improving Your Working Relationship With Your Robot Assistant

Imagine that your boss has sent you to an all-day workshop at the local Hilton. His last minute invitation meant you don’t even know the workshop […]
October 18, 2016

Podcast: The Importance of Culture

Today’s post is a podcast that I recently provided for the Lead This! organization. Mergers and acquisitions consistently top the headlines, yet most of them fail. In […]
March 7, 2016

Showing Email the Door: Why Atos Origin is Striving to be a Zero-Email Business

Today’s guest post is from David Burkus and is an excerpt from his upcoming book, Under New Management, which will be released on March 15. You can find […]
December 31, 2015

2015 – A Year in Review

As I conclude my second year of blogging I wanted to reflect on the topics that interested you, my readers. In fact, many of my musings […]
December 11, 2015

A Zuckerberg Sized Conundrum: Assessing a Leaders Motive

If you pay attention to pop culture you will have noticed that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla, recently gave birth to their first child […]
November 18, 2015

Why Educate?

Education is important. This societal norm is embraced by most people in North America. In fact, it is a foundational value of our social fabric. But […]
October 22, 2015

The WOW Factor: Increasing Employee Engagement

If you read my blogs you know that I have been spending too much time watching baseball lately. However, while watching the Blue Jays and Royals […]
October 19, 2015

Developing Followers Who Lead Themselves

An old adage advises us not to put all our eggs in one basket. We’ve all applied this principle to matters such as our finances, our time […]
October 2, 2015

Thinking Outside the Bullpen: Strategic Innovation

This week my baseball team, the Toronto Blue Jays, secured a playoff berth and home field advantage for the American league playoffs. Their meteoric rise to […]
September 25, 2015

The Problem with ‘Important’

A colleague and I have had a difficult time meeting lately. As I have reflected on why this has occurred, I have discovered that the word ‘important‘ […]