The Power of One concept is not new — it’s the bedrock of everything from motivational speeches to Army One. S o, why not begin by setting an example of personal accountability that can be emulated throughout your organization? There’s an entire industry devoted to the power we have over…
Over the last few weeks, we've discussed how it's possible for different cultures to produce equally profound results. H ow do you create a mindset where everyone takes full responsibility for their actions and refuses to blame outside forces for failure or disappointment?Déjà vu all over again?How often have you…
We’ve been exploring the impact of different cultures and how they affect our organizations. W hat are the common threads shared by these radically different cultures that you can apply to make your company equally successful?“Lary, give this customer a call. We’ve just received an unauthorized return, and I want…
Last week, in Can Radically Different Cultures Produce Equally Great Results?, I posed the question: If measured by financial performance, can dramatically different organizations be equally successful? I n this short series about culture development, we’ll take a look at how sound business principles and cultural patterns often collide within…
“I’m swamped.” “I’m buried.” “I’m getting killed.” S ound familiar? It’s a common refrain everywhere I go these days. CEOs and business leaders are feeling overrun with a myriad of operational details exacerbated by the constant struggle to stay ahead of the information tsunami.In my work with CEOs across all…
You’ve developed common practices you take for granted. B ut, when was the last time you examined whether those “good practices" still represent “best practices"? Do you punt on fourth down because you always do? Several years ago when my father was in his final days, his bonhomie in full…
Your Decision-Making Style will determine a lot about the success of your decisions. A re you able to make the tough calls when you need to? In one of the episodes of Black Sails, a saga about the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 1700s (S3/E3), the feared Captain…
Does that headline get you thinking? D o you live your life like Tomorrow Never Comes? If you don’t make the best of today, what else is left? You can learn a lot of lessons when death strikes close to home. Over the Christmas holidays several years ago, we lost…
I got my hands dirty today. I t's been a long time since my fingers were almost black. It felt good, though, to get my hands back in it. It felt good to rummage around in there, traversing rather methodically, sometimes bouncing around without a real plan but enjoying the…