The Most Important Decision to Start 2015

Recently, a client asked me to help him with his leadership team. He said, “They are mired in data. They don’t seem to know what the data is telling us, and the less sure they are, the more charts I see.” Having recently hosted a breakfast for...

Top Ten Things I Learned From Clients in 2014

10. Priorities are not what people say they are. They are what the organization actually does. If something is a meaningful priority the following is true: Results are the focus Someone is accountable Resources are made available to achieve the results 9. Insularity...

Engage the Clutch

What got you here won’t get you there. Marshall Goldsmith coined this well-known phrase. It captures an important idea in few words. That’s why it’s brilliant. So good that I hear it repeated often. Yet the percentage of those who say it and then...

Prayer for Peace

A message from Reverend Terry Davis, Minister of Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation. The words of Christian mystic Howard Thurman called to me this morning as I saw the photos on the Internet of the protests, the violence, the frustration and tears in...

Flying High?

What do Adam Silver, Bud Selig and Gary Bettman have in common with Roger Goodell? Each is at the top of their game as head of a major sports organization (NBA, MBL, NHL, and NFL) and each is vulnerable because they can’t know everything that goes on in it....

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