I love a good cup of hot, black, coffee in the morning! It is especially good on these cool summer mornings at 6:30AM, when I am sitting at my deck with the sun coming up. You can see the steam coming out of the cup in the rays of...
Navigating Leadership
Years ago, my two teenage kids and I joined other dads and their kids on a whitewater rafting trip down the Chattooga River for a Father’s Day adventure. You may recall that the Chattooga River was made famous in the 1972 movie Deliverance starring a young Burt...
Help Your Team Build Integrity with Leadership Training!
Integrity. There is a lot of talk about integrity these days and it’s just that: talk. People would like to see integrity in their workplace, government, and community. They would love to see integrity in their kids’ friends. But if you...
Noah The Barista at the Four Seasons
In his 2001 NY Times best-selling book Good to Great, Jim Collins says on page 43: First who?… Then What. We expected that good to great leaders would begin by setting a new vision and strategy. We found instead that they first...
Did you ever hear this one: “When our phones had leashes, we were free. Now our phones are free, and we have leashes.” My, how times have changed!
When I was in high school, we had two phones in the house. One phone was in the kitchen, it had...
Growing up in my family, achievement was celebrated, from earning my own money to go to camp or buying my bike to ride to work as a golf caddie. Achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and receiving my full tuition and housing scholarship to Michigan State University with the...
In my last article, we talked about how a team can be thought of like a sports car. The people on your team are like the components of an engine. In order to improve performance, you have to get under the hood and examine the engine. It’s time consuming....
How Tuned Up Is Your Corporate Leadership?
An organization, large or small, can be thought of like a sportscar! In order to improve performance, you have to get under the hood and examine the engine. It is time-consuming. You’re going to get greasy. Some of the parts are going...
It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who Knows You
In 1978 The British rock band the Who released their 8th album Who Are You. It received mixed reviews from the critics but peaked at #2 on the US Charts! Listen Here.
The Album cover was a photograph of the...
Sometimes Career Growth Requires The Right Road
Many of you know that I grew up in Detroit Michigan. In 1985, after graduating with a B.S. in Medical Technology from Michigan State University, I packed up everything I owned in the trunk of my 1967 Cutlas and moved to Atlanta....