The Future Started Yesterday…in case you didn’t notice. Do you feel behind already? Is your organization struggling to keep up with the changing fluctuations of the economic environment, battling to learn new ways of marketing, working to adjust to the new social contract between
There is nothing more angering than having a problem to solve and the people who are responsible for solving that problem look at you with blank, hollow eyes that avoid being accountable. Every individual has the ability to think and should be coached to
The BBC reporter on the other end of the line wanted to know if I thought you could ban office gossip. I told him it was impossible! Then he proceeded to tell me that Bridgewater Associates, a Wall Street hedge fund group, had issued
I was interested in an article in a recent post in theWall Street Journal on a new law proposed in New York allowing employees to sue a boss for bullying. Sarah E. Needleman writes:“Earlier this month, the Empire State’s Senate passed a bipartisan measure
Yesterday I attended a breakfast meeting sponsored by Business to Business. The speaker was David Ratcliffe, Chairman, President & CEO of Southern Company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Two things impressed me about Ratcliffe. First, he was very complimentary of his employees. He complimented his
On March 24, 2010 the Personal Journal Section of The Wall Street Journal carried an article entitled Rejected! It documented how Warren Buffett (Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.) Meredith Vieira (Today show co-host) and Harold Varmus (Nobel laureate in medicine) were all rejected by
Jim Halsey was fascinating in the interview I watched this morning. Halsey is a veteran music manager and agent having discovered and promoted stars such as Reba McEntire, Roy Clark, The Oakridge Boys and The Judds. After 60 years in business, his new book,
I have been participating in a fun discussion on LinkedIn with the group, Linked2Leadership. A group member challenged readers to tell a story in six words. Think about it…statements that impact you the most are short, simple, and have an emotional impact. Imagine the
I was impressed today with a television clip I saw of Captain Richard Phillips thanking the crew of the USS Bainbridge for his rescue from the Somali pirates in April. Two things he said have application to our work environment today. First, he said
Because team members are individuals first – with strong opinions – and team members second, disagreements and conflicts are to be expected as projects progress. Sometimes, conflicts are not talked through to the point of collaboration and become skeletons in the company closet, rattling
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