It is known by many names. In the U.S. Army it is called the after-action review or AAR. In business...
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Effective Leadership
It feels more true whenever you hear something repeated. In other words, repetition makes any statement seem more factual. So...
“Metamorphic” is my description of Chris Argyris’s discussion at Harvard. Chris had an exceptional power to act by holding a mirror and showing his pupil that they were not as courteous as they believed to be. Chris found that people who run organisations function in harmony with one of two patterns: totalitarian dictatorship or collective development. People who run organisations and rule through totalitarian...
Until thought is linked with purpose, there is no intelligent accomplishment. – James Allen 1 Leadership has never been so competitive....
Only 44% of Americans take vacations in a given year. What’s wrong with the other 56%? Today’s post from The...
Leon Wahler shares new insights into the advantages of challenging the status quo in business and innovation. When I was a student, I had a summer job at a summer camp. During the pre-camp open house, I was giving some of the parents of our campers a tour of the...
How to keep customers loyal by using handwritten thank you cards. When I started working for Ben Bridge Jeweler in...
Effective ways to expand your business: Running your own business can be both exciting and overwhelming. Whether it is building...
In my opinion, one of the biggest challenges in running your own business is to ensure it is cash flow positive. This means your revenue should be greater than your expenses. Although this may appear to be a simple equation, depending on the company or industry, revenue is the lifeblood...
Chances are pretty good that you don’t. You are operating based on hunches or guesses that are based on your...
The benefits of being authentic in the workplace, and how to be more genuine at work. What do we mean...
Do you really know how productive you are? Sure, you get stuff done. The end of the day comes around and you’ve ticked a few things off your to-do list. You may have even completed your top three goals for the day and turned over some emails. But could you...
Tuning into any news source these days can be an exercise in controlled terror – domestic terrorism, political unrest, wars,...
“Downsizing” is often cited as a retirement strategy to both cut expenses and access the equity in a current “pre-retirement”...
How do you define discipline in the corporate context? A harsh sense of order and control? It might surprise you then that the U.S. Military defines and practice discipline in a much more broad sense. Dispense with your pre-conceived notions of drill instructors screaming orders at new recruits. The modern...
I think, perhaps, that I am not normal. I read a fascinating (and, depressing) study by UBS recently, titled “When...
According to the renowned scholar, Drucker (1985), all successful innovations are direct results of change. For any development within an...
Growing attention has been paid to the knowledge economy in today’s business environments, where the foundations of economy are largely based on creating and trading knowledge. It is believed that the knowledge economy is facilitated by a transformation of top management executives’ approach to managing human assets as knowledge holders....
In my many years in the workplace, I have enjoyed and experienced many positions and projects. The one project that...
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” –...