Most often today the difference between a company and its competitor is the ability to execute. If your competitors are executing better tha...

Give some thought to all the people who have achieved something great, only to quickly fade into obscurity. I’m sure you can think of a few,...

You have the life you’re willing to put up with.  Think about it. What are the problems, those heinous, dark shadows currently spoiling the ...

In any business environment, change happens. Let’s rephrase: In any business environment, change should happen. It shows you're committe...

After reading over 200 self-improvement books over the past thirty years I have determined all self-improvement and success come down to fiv...

“We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.” ― Robert Brault Growth requires you to lose something.   ...

Once a year, all Navy ships undergo a thorough assessment, in which outside inspectors validate the ship's readiness. The ship as a whol...

Do you know what matters to you today? Recently I spent time with 1,200 senior business leaders. During our discussion, I asked these leader...

  It has been said by Bruce Barton that, “When we’re through changing, we’re through.” There is no age when we are too old or too young or j...

  The leader as an architect: How Kennedy developed a structural blueprint of core connections via four sensegiving actions.  Inductive theo...

  The U.S. was the first country to put a person on the moon when Neil Armstrong bounded from the Apollo 11 staircase onto the lunar surface...

When we reexamine what we really want, we realize that everything that happens in our lives — every misfortune, every slight, every loss, an...

Given what I’ve revealed about short-termism at Honeywell, you might wonder if we had a formal strategic planning process in place. We certa...

…we always ask the meeting owner—the most senior executive hosting it—the same two questions: What do you want to have debated, decided, or ...

Executive sponsors must communicate effectively with employees throughout the project. The sponsor plays a critical role in communicating th...

Critical thinking, problem solving, and working well with others are necessary for employees at any level, but MIT Sloan professors Nelson R...

Accountability breeds response-ability . Commitment and involvement produce change. In training executives, we use a step-by-step, natural, ...

Here are Google's leadership evaluation questions ( a scale of 1 (strongly agree) to 5 (strongly disagree) ): 1. My manager gives me act...

Performance  is what an enterprise does to deliver improved results for its stakeholders in financial and operational terms. It's evalua...

"... author Stephen Covey coined  Eisenhower's Urgent/Important Principle   in his book   The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peo...