I wonder how often you hear an apology as clear and simple as “We screwed up, how can we make it right?” From my experience not very often. A Learning Experience I had…
Management
I have been working with my business partner Jennifer to create a new business. If you’ve been down that road, you know it takes a huge amount of work. As coaches, one of…
A big shift occurred at the end of 2011. In case you weren’t paying attention, 2012 marked the start of a lower rate of US productivity. The chart below shows the trend. You…
“Corporations are victims of the great training robbery”, say Harvard Business School’s Michael Beer and his colleagues in a recent impactful in HBR article. Indeed, I have often experienced this lack of skills…
Last weekend I helped mentor about 80 Portland high school students during StartUp Camp 2017. Wow, what an experience! Some of the businesses developed during the two and a half days were very…
I read a thought provoking blog post recently from Alan Weiss. Alan talked about establishing cause and effect relationships in your business. Simply put do you know why you are getting the results…
Do most teams exhibit great teamwork? Before you answer, we should pause and consider a more important question, what is teamwork? Many people will say it is a group of people working together to get…
A big question that often comes up for me is whether I am doing enough. Is this question familiar to you? This has been especially true for me as I work on a…
Throughout my corporate career I looked at complaining as a particularly negative behavior. If I was committed to achieve a goal, that meant I did whatever was required to get it done and…
How often have you completed a request only to find out that your work wasn’t met with a warm reception? That’s great, but it’s not quite what I was looking for… Alternatively, you…