Are Your Teams Rowing Together?

In some ways, sculling team serves as a metaphor for business.  The image of teamwork with all people rowing in rhythm and in the same direction applies to business strategy. In order for everyone on your staff to push and pull in the same direction to take the...

All Work and No Play

As if the holidays didn’t impose sufficient stress upon normal human beings, those in management must also cope with the added burden of managing not only their own stress but also the stress of those who report to them. After all, that’s what good bosses do. They...

Cascading Goals

Corporate culture and strategy follow the truisms of plumbing. Like water, communication always runs downhill. In other words, business success begins at the top and flows down through the ranks to the people who actually do the work of carrying out the business. All...