Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller have penned another business fable, Great Leaders Grow. People and organizations are not fully alive unless they are growing. They ask, “will you be a leader who is always ready to face the next challenge, or will you be a leader that tries to apply yesterday’s solutions to today’s problems? It’s not optional. MORE >>

I first read See You at the Top (Zig Ziglar’s classic first book) over Christmas one year during college. had heard of Zig, and checked out the book from the library. took pages of notes since I couldn’t write in the book. still have the notes. Soon after, I started listening to Zig’s [.]. MORE >>

I make no apologies. continue to challenge the people I lead. expect a lot of them. try to be fair. I’m a strong advocate for family time. embrace the flexible workplace. But, I am always pushing people to be better. challenge people to live up to their full potential and I’m dissatisfied with a mediocre performance. Why should we? MORE >>

In a book published in 1996, The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton developed in much greater depth and detail a concept they introduced previously in an HBR article (January/February, 1992): the balanced scorecard. MORE >>

Inherent in the definition of career is the opportunity to progress. Getting ahead” was my father’s way of saying it. Notwithstanding politics, nowhere is the notion of upward mobility more prevalent than in the world of business. So what is wrong with managing your career? My beef is not the end point; it is the means to that end. MORE >>