
Make This Your First Business Conversation in 2018
Lots of people are now deep in the process of resolving to do a few things differently over the coming New Year. Many are resolving

Stop Un-Recruiting
I read with interest a recent NY Times piece about the growing Brexit-inspired labor shortage spreading throughout Britain, as foreign workers across the breadth and depth of

You’re Fired!
Everyone who accepts a role with responsibility for providing leadership to others must accept the reality that it will eventually be their duty to tell

Expecting the Best: You Get What You Expect to Get
About forty years ago, before anyone had heard or even contemplated the term, “FedEx”, Federal Express marketing guru, Vince Fagan worked with the company’s ad

There’s No Hacking Leadership
One of my new least favorite words (along with “handcrafted” and “curated”, but that’s another post altogether) is the word “hack”. Not in the old

For Better Leadership Communication, Put a Different Device in Your Hand
The fact that each of us has continually at hand, if not in hand, devices that practically beg to announce our every thought or emotion immediately upon