Archive for September, 2009

Solve the Human Beings Being Human Puzzle

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

Why are so few employees operating at levels they are capable of? Why is one person in five actively disengaged - a warm bum in a chair? Why do 60% of employees do the basic minimum effort it takes not to get fired? What must a business leader do to ...

Great Leadership Depends on Great Decisions – Take AIME

Friday, September 25th, 2009

All great leaders are defined by the quality of their decisions.�Although leaders can delegate, postpone, or otherwise defer decisions, ultimately there are some things that only the leader can decide.�As President Harry Truman famously said, "the buck stops here."�He realized that ultimately, he needed to take responsibility and make decisions ...

Bridging the Talking-Doing Gap

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

It's great to talk - but when does communication get in the way of actually "doing"? In the past years I've worked within 3 different companies that talked a lot but then did very little. All of them had one or more of the following challenges that they were struggling ...