Have you ever had to lead a team without having any authority? If so, you know it makes achieving business outcomes that much more difficult. In my mid-20s, just after earning my MBA, I was a bid/...

The country and world for that matter, has been in awe of our front-line workers during the coronavirus crisis—from hospital staff, to bus drivers, to first responders, to grocery store employees—...

It feels fitting to end 2020 with an article about 20/20 hindsight. At work and in our personal lives, we often find ourselves looking back on the decisions we’ve made and reflecting on if we cou...

Organizations—including yours—require a pool of talent who possess an array of core skills to operate day to day, drive financial results, and ultimately keep their doors open in a highly competit...

After months of quarantines and closures, office doors everywhere are opening again.  Employees are being asked to make their way back into the office, in some cases full time as in the pre-pandem...

What can leaders learn from the movie Jerry McGuire? There is one notion that could create wins. Do you remember the scene when Dorothy (Renee Zellweger) tells Jerry (Tom Cruz) You Had Me at Hello...

It’s President’Ronald Reagan, our 40th President understood the value of managing one’s public image and persona. He was known as a master of “image-making.” President Reagan’s Hollywood acting ca...

I vividly remember being at a local chamber of commerce event last year when a gentleman approached me from out of nowhere and asked if I had a business card in a somewhat aggressive manner. He wa...

It all started with the Hawaiian shirt (aka Aloha shirt). In the 1960s the Hawaiian government made it official that Aloha shirts could be worn on Friday during summer months. Wait, why only Frida...

“Stop saying sorry!” That is what one panelist firmly yet tactfully suggested in response to an audience participant during Q&A at an event that I sat front and center in attendance at last we...