Organizational Design

What Exactly Is Employee Empowerment and How Do You Keep Employees Engaged?

What Exactly Is Employee Empowerment and How Do You Keep Employees Engaged?

Employee engagement is defined as an active state related to productivity and innovation. Engaged employees can be described as being…

5 years ago

The No. 1 Thing Successful Companies Scale

I’ve often said, “if leadership doesn’t scale neither will your organization.” Experience has led me to conclude there is no greater contribution…

8 years ago

A Leadership Job Description

When was the last time you read a leadership job description? We have job descriptions for every position under the…

12 years ago

Leadership & the Super Committee

It's been a while since I've weighed in on the political front, and with the recent failure of the Budget…

12 years ago

When to Restructure

To restructure or not to restructure? When to restructure is the question many a business is forced to ask at…

12 years ago

There IS an “I” in Team

As much as some don't want to hear this, there is an "I" in the team - there is simply…

13 years ago

5 Reasons Tenure Kills Culture

If your organization confuses loyalty with tenure there is trouble on the horizon. Put simply, tenure kills productivity, and ultimately…

13 years ago

Training Isn’t Dead – But it Should Be

In the text that follows I'm going to poke holes in a process generally accepted as productive when it rarely…

13 years ago

Workplace Gossip

Allowing gossip in the workplace is like encouraging your employees to swim with sharks. Let me cut right to the…

13 years ago

10 Steps to Productive Meetings

If you’ve ever watched an episode of NBC’s “The Office” you know exactly what unproductive meetings look like. The tragic…

13 years ago

How to Hire & Manage Consultants

While you might be lucky enough to survive in business with little or no advice from others, you will certainly…

13 years ago

Capital vs. Influence

I have watched entrepreneurs and executives initially trivialize the value of influence in a capital transaction, only to regret it…

13 years ago

Leadership and Knowledge Management

It's one thing to possess the knowledge, but it's quite another thing to leverage it. Leaders who don't understand the…

13 years ago

Smart Leaders Do More Than Talk About Talent

Those of you familiar with my work know how much I detest politically correct sound-bites. Even worse - when those…

13 years ago

What Is the CEO Average Tenure and Should They Have Term Limits?

I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits and felt…

13 years ago

How Dumb is Your Business?

How dumb is your business? At the risk of drawing the ire of corporate elitists, I submit to you that…

14 years ago