50 years old? How can that be? Here's the story behind "The Girl From Ipanema" and here's the song MORE >>

I always thought I was a fabulous team player, but always wondered why my team struggled so much. Since taking this program, I’ve learned there are so many things I could have been doing to help my team work better together. And since applying some of the concepts from this class, there has already been improvement. Thanks Mike! What to do? MORE >>

The notion of business as a combination of sport and war was attributed to Emile Herzog (1885-1967), a French author who used the pen name, Andre Maurois. m going to admit at the outset that I was a strong proponent of Herzog’s concept for most of my career. That may sound extreme. It is the mindset of a company in a “turnaround.” MORE >>

You can give people plush offices. You can make sure they don't lose any money. You can load them up with lavish benefits. You can claim that any negative actions are strictly neutral and no reflection on their skills or achievements. You can even heap on the praise. The human factor will always be felt MORE >>

Posted in Self Leadership Sometimes, a description of what something is not helps to also describe what it is. This past week, we had another Lead Change Tulsa breakfast dialogue and the topic was Effectively Leading Diverse Organizations. Over 40 people, many new to Lead Change, joined us for this discussion. MORE >>