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...

Align Vision to Values

If your news feed looks anything like mine, you’ll have noticed a trend in articles that speaks to business ethics as applied to the people who work for you as well as the clientèle you serve. Humane treatment of employees becomes crucial in attracting and retaining...

The Golden Rule in Business

As children we learned the Golden Rule: Treat others as you wish to be treated. In business, however, we see winners and losers and those that win don’t appear to play by the rules. Read articles on systemically poor treatment of workers by such commercial juggernauts...

Freedom of Choice

The buck stops here. As a decision maker, every choice you make concerning the business affects the business, its employees, and even its clients. Many of those consequences may be minor, such as changing the brand of copy paper used in the office. Other decisions...

Show, Don’t Tell

Every successful author/writer learns this key concept that C-suite executives would do well to apply to their everyday business interactions: show, don’t tell. Applied to business interaction and management, the concept doesn’t refer to using active verbs whenever...