The Great Leader Revels in Accomplishment
The moment I noticed it I felt the irony. A dragonfly resting on a dragonfly! And that is the moment I saw efficiency in motion. Let me start at the beginning… On a summer afternoon in our backyard garden, my wife and I enjoyed dinner in the warm sunshine. In...
Finding and Keeping Good Employees, part 2
Employers cannot find employees and it will get worse before it gets better. The national restaurant trade group recently announced that their industry would need 500,000 more workers just to get “business back to normal.” Where these workers will come from, no one...
Theodore Roosevelt
Share this article: Theodore Roosevelt was a great leader! One of his abilities was to look out past the now, to think about the long-term. With this asset, he then developed a vision for our future. For example, he forsaw the menacing presence of Japan as early as...
Risk Taking Versus Risk Management
Share this article: “Many managers and executives fail to see the difference between risk-taking and risk management. Quite often seasoned managers and executives tell me, ‘Risk management prevents risk-taking.’ Nothing could be further from the truth. You will be a...
How to Influence the Creative Generation
I guarantee, as a leader, you will be tested as you strive to lead others in this dawning age of intense and rapid creativity and innovation. If you choose to stay stuck and attempt to lead using out of date methods, then you will end up like the dinosaurs—extinct!