Sometimes, I work with business professionals who have adopted a strategy of doubling down on their strengths and ignoring their weaknesses. They generally take this approach as they face difficulties in the workplace. Some of these leaders and managers are simply doing more of what has always worked for them in the past. For example, [.]. MORE >>

We are all creative, but by the time we are three or four years old someone has knocked creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, [.]. Innovation strategic thinking survival skills MORE >>

Like the penguins residing on this melting iceberg, change is inevitable as John Kotter explains so well in his writings. In business (and life), we must move on as circumstances and forces change all around us.  What was once a solid foundation on which we could put our trust (a massive iceberg), now is a [.]. MORE >>

It turns out that all of the discussion occurring about the importance of sound values and good ethics in the workplace is not idealistic talk.  It’s actually important to the careers of business professionals. Leadership leadership motivation organizational productivity survival skills MORE >>

There is a paradox in management that often affects many talented business professionals.  Specifically, they find that as they assume greater levels of managerial responsibility, the more they work in crisis mode.  It can be confusing.  Management emotional intelligence management organizational productivity performance management survival skills MORE >>