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  • Strength-Based Management: Flawed & Dangerous

    A relentless exploration into your weaknesses is the single most important action most leaders are not doing for themselves and their colleagues. It’s more difficult at every turn than focusing your strengths…

    September 25, 2019
    Leadership

  • Innovators, Early Adopters Key to the Mass Consumer Base

    There’s a paradox in business when it comes to consumer acquisition. Consider a basic bell curve of the consumers available to your business. Any business owner can quickly realize that the goal…

    September 16, 2019
    Business

  • Development Beyond a Rite of Passage

    We know that the best teams and organizations in the world place specific emphasis on rites of passage. This is true in private sector, military, and athletics contexts. Furthermore, the degree of…

    August 15, 2019
    Development

  • When Consensus Kills

    Make no mistake that small, passionate teams are responsible for most any remarkable impact on the world. After all, it’s these potent groups that go to the moon, change industries, and save…

    May 31, 2019
    Leadership

  • Tragedy: Cart Before the Horse

    When you put the cart before the horse all hell breaks loose. When you’re looking for important results (carts), you need important processes first (horses). This is true in life, sport, war,…

    April 2, 2019
    Business

  • Success: An Invisible Death Trap

    If you based your evaluation of Enron Corporation on its results anytime before 2001, you’d have to surmise that they must be doing everything right. From 1990 to 1998, Enron’s stock rose…

    March 15, 2019
    Business

  • Marketing Case Study: Bridging the Gap on Perceived Value

    To understand effective marketing, we need to understand the mind of the consumer. Humans have countless self-preservation mechanisms at play at any given time to increase survival and conserve energy stores. A…

    February 6, 2019
    Marketing

  • When It Comes to Pricing, Context is King

    The name of business is value creation. The elements that generally come to mind with regards to creating value are the obvious ones, like improving the product or service. There are also…

    December 10, 2018
    Business

  • Players, Passengers, and Prisoners

    An important framework emerged in a conversation a mentor of mine, Nicole Schneider, had with the CEO of a global leader in coffee about management. The CEO in question built a career…

    October 16, 2018
    Leadership

  • The Mechanics of Meditation for Better Leadership

    Whether you meditate or not is beside the point. If you are an avid meditator, however, you’re in luck because there are elements of the meditative process that have direct implications on…

    October 12, 2018
    Leadership