Every organization and team has times where everyone is stretched, stress abounds, and even times where it seems things are going backwards for a while. It could be a crisis or an exceptionally busy season. It could be internal or external issues causing the stressful times. During these seasons good leadership is more critical than ever. Integrity. MORE >>

10 Signs Your Company Culture Needs a Fix. There is little doubt that the best performing firms on the planet have exciting and healthy cultures - think Google, Southwest and Nike - while other organizations seem to be in a constant state of struggle to reach their full potential. Your business routinely falls short of its goals. MORE >>

Respond to the following statements with always, sometimes, and never: In uncertain times, I usually expect the best. If something can go wrong for me, it will. hardly ever expect things to go my way. rarely count on good things happening to me. Overall, I expect more good things to happen to me than bad. Yet both can be optimistic. It’s both! MORE >>

Most re-organization efforts either focus on hard stuff (processes, strategy, structure, KPI’s) or on soft stuff (culture, values, relationships, feelings). have seen very few reorganization efforts in my career that are focused on the most important aspect of how value is delivered to customers: Simplicity. This is rubbish, very abstract. MORE >>

I wrote this post for another publication in 2014, but it appears they have deleted it. I’m preparing to do a workshop on how to nurture high potentials and found it in my archives. Still looks relevant to me! Warning: the following article contains a heavy dose of sarcasm. Read at your own risk, and whatever you do, DO NOT follow the advice! MORE >>