CEOs love a good war metaphor — “battlegrounds,” “offensives,” “fighting for market share.” It sounds bold. Strategic. Even inspiring. But n...

To avoid priority proliferation, managers can inject discipline into the prioritization process by making choices more explicitly and system...

It’s all about action. Going out there, doing it, and taking all your negative bullshit along for the ride. It’s never going to get any bett...

“I got this…” You can handle this. It’s not going to kill you. Your life isn’t over. You’ve got plenty more left in the tank. Plenty. “I got...

It's... important to reward failure. While incentives and goals matter, the act of considered risk taking itself needs to be rewarded, e...

Most prescriptions for organizational change have focused on how to launch a single change initiative. This made sense in a stable world in ...

Based on Prosci's change management research report with 650 participants, employees prefer two primary senders of change messages. Not ...

Throughout my career, I always had great respect for the British Special Air Service , the famed SAS. The SAS motto was " Who Dares Win...

 A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. John A. Shedd Salt From My Attic . Mosher Press. 1928. As found in  202...

SEALs train with the philosophy slow is smooth and smooth is fast. That’s how movements and behaviors become muscle memory – something imper...

In the wry words of N.R. Narayana Murthy, former chairman of Infosys, “In God we Trust; everybody  else brings data to the table.” Managing ...

Risk, creativity and defining your own path is made possible only through a series of failures, some big, some small. Hide none of them. ...

Most successful change efforts begin when some individuals or some groups start to look hard at a company’s competitive situation, market...

There is clearly risk associated with empowering your team to make more and faster decisions at a lower-level than was previously the nor...

Mission statements are wonderful things. You can’t argue with lofty values like growth, empowerment, or innovation. But what do they mean...

Over the entrance to a small paelstra –– a wrestling school — in ancient Greece was emblazoned this short phrase: Strip or Retire. ...

1. Executives must lead by example in the area of safety as well as every other aspect of ethical business. This includes, for exampl...

…in the late 1860’s… Papa and a bunch of other Salt Licks formed a “pool herd” of their little separate bunches of steers and trailed them t...

John Lasseter and Ed Catmull, VES Awards. 2/28/2010 Here are some of the principles we’ve developed over the years to enable and protect...

I believe the best managers acknowledge and make room for what they do not know – not just because humility is a virtue but because until...