Standing at the foot of Mt. Everest. No water. No oxygen. No proper equipment to speak of. Nevertheless, must get to the top. And fast. Teaching and travelling around Asia in the second half of the 1990s, this is exactly how I felt on my return to t ...
A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away… Shell Oil, the Catholic Church and the Communist Party represented an organizational reality that was fairly predictable – one where executives, priests and party chiefs could set objectives and manage in a ...
Je ne parle pas anglais – the short bark I got every time I asked a train attendant for help. I’d flown into Paris a week earlier and even managed to find my way into the city center, despite a city-wide transport strike. But this was a whole new animal ...
Love him or hate him, US president number 44 was very different from the one that came before him. And I’m not talking about the color of his skin. Something happened at the beginning of his first term that prompted President Obama to publicly apologi ...
“The key to getting your employees to give high performance is to understand what motivates them.” – Chris Roebuck, author Lead to Succeed. FACT OR ALTERNATIVE FACT? Is this one man’s opinion or is it the truth? Consider these ...
What is really going on? Without a doubt, life can be crazy. At times it feels like the walls are closing in around you - work is out of control and your personal commitments are exploding... However, could there be something else going on with you? ...
“I believe every artist had someone who told them they were dirt and someone who told them that they were the second coming of the baby Jesus, and they believed ‘em both". – Bruce Springsteen BBC Radio 4 Springsteen’s observation got me thinking… ...
Do you work for a great company? If so, what makes it great? If no, what prevents it from being so? Do its other stakeholders feel the same as you (employees, customers, suppliers)? As an independent contractor, I get to choose the organizatio ...
Want to show your superiors that you’re a STRATEGIC THINKER? Want to motivate your direct reports to bring their BEST PERFORMANCE? When speaking to a key customer, want to get the RIGHT INFORMATION? If you answered yes to any of these, you ne ...
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” – Robert Levine Do you ever feel like time is slipping out of your control? And as a result, you have to make the best possible use of your limited time? Or that working more efficientl ...
Terra Incognita “...they also will, like consultants, encounter situations where they will not know what to do.” In Humble Consulting (2016) Edgar Schein points out that leaders and managers at all levels need to adopt the role of Humble Consultant. ...
