January 2015

I loved the article Great leaders Can Double Profits, Research Shows by Jack Zenger in Forbes this week.  We've known for a long time the value of a great leader but…

It takes barely a moment watching the video of Patricia Harrison speak for her passion and charisma to grab you. After recently interviewing her for Let Go & Lead, I…

What keeps an employee productive? A new survey suggests that for HR leaders, workplace productivity is something to be protected from the creeping time suck of Facebook and Twitter. Jointly conducted by…

Our 12-year old son is away at summer camp.  By no means a newbie to the sleep-away camp experience; this is, however, the first year that he will be gone…

For the last twenty plus years, whenever I’ve talked to CEOs personally, or read studies about the biggest cultural challenges they report facing within their companies, a near universal concern…

I recently listened to a webinar on empowering the workforce with mobile technology and its impact on employee performance. The webinar reminded me how the flood of new tools –…

It is so tempting to always hire people who seem just like me.  Someone who will fit right in and want to do everything the same way I want to…

My first job after graduate school was in a company that was dominated by the “my way or the highway” style of leadership. Work never changed, we just kept delivering…

What does it take to break through the concrete middle — that layer of management where messages go in, but they don’t come out?  It’s probably not a sledge hammer. …