When the phone rings, it’s often an organization or business calling to talk to us about a group or team that is having problems with communication, personalities, or group dynamics. As a result, the project or task isn’t coming together as everyone anticipated. In fact, in one case the project had been delayed 7 months [...]
About six months ago I read the book, The Leadership Pill. It’s not a long book by any means, but I was surprised at Ken Blanchard and Marc Muchnick’s ability to interweave a fictional story with real life references and provide the reader with a parable on effective leadership. The Leadership Pill begins with the [...]
The emails are backed up, the inbox is full, voice mail messages are piling up on both the office phone and the blackberry, the next three days are packed with meetings and two reports are already past due. At this rate, you mutter, “there is no way I am going to get out from under [...]
I don’t know about you, but I am very glad to leave 2009 behind. In fact, the whole “00″ decade wasn’t what I had dreamed about when we were all preparing for Y2K. At that time, we were on the cusp of a new century and everything sounded exciting: the projected technological and scientific advances, globalization of [...]