3 leadership qualities everyone can use to successfully lead a project, including examples: The great basketball coach, John Wooden, made...
How do you incentivize people to do a good job? How do you keep them motivated? It would be nice...
What’s your career vision? Perhaps it’s something like “I’m going to be a Vice-President of sales,” or “I’m going to be an operations director.” Although simplicity is often an important quality to many things, it isn’t for vision statements. In my extensive work helping both companies and individuals define their...
The ultimate guide to setting effective goals from an ex US naval officer. “Give me a place to stand and...
Antiquated, a bit rusted, perpetually sinking and, by U.S. Navy standards, understaffed, the U.S.S. Blakely (FF-1072) should have been one...
For years, Angela Duckworth has teased the world with bits and pieces of her research into the science of achievement. She has found that the most significant attribute of personal character that impacts personal achievement is something she calls grit. Her new book of the same name collectively summarizes her...
It’s a simple idea; empower and train your front line leaders to make the right decisions aligned with long-term goals....
It is known by many names. In the U.S. Army it is called the after-action review or AAR. In business...
Many years ago, I got suckered into doing real work. A friend asked me to help him move into a new home . . . argh! I was not the only one invited to help. There were five of us gathered together to help our friend, our ‘host’ of sorts,...
Examples of operational rhythm in business management and leadership. Take two metronomes and place them at opposite ends of a...
The importance of vision and strategy from the point of view of a former US Naval officer. Long before strategic...
The ultimate guide on building and leading mindful teams and organizations. It has been 26 years since the publication of Ellen J. Langer’s groundbreaking work, Mindfulness. Although powerful in its impact upon the management and cognitive sciences, few leaders have even a simple understanding of what mindfulness can mean to...
Why the ‘Flawless Execution’ method will improve collaboration and lead to successful teamwork? Have you ever been invited to a...
How do you define discipline in the corporate context? A harsh sense of order and control? It might surprise you...
Corps Leadership is a complex endeavour. Since human beings are the most complicated things known to exist, could leadership be anything less than complex? Humans, however, tend to address complex problems with complex solutions. Adding complexity to complexity only increases the challenge of leadership. To meet complex challenges, the opposite...
