Data before Dogma and the Over-hyped Millennial

Data before Dogma and the Over-hyped Millennial

Whither the Y2K consultant?  Remember 1999 and all the doomsday scenarios about what will happen with the change of the year?  Perhaps they have all put out their shingles as experts on either “millennials” or social media sales.  Both have similarly low barriers to...

It is Time to be Less Tolerant

Today’s political environment brings out the fact that we need to be tolerant of a viewpoints. This should continue and increase. In the world of work, there are lots of areas that would benefit the organization if we were LESS tolerant. Here are several that come to...
Using Natural Processes for Natural Leadership

Using Natural Processes for Natural Leadership

There are many natural processes that can greatly impact leadership effectiveness. And yet too often leaders make things too complicated.  They rely on complicated models or artificial constructs that make a book author feel good but are in reality hard to apply.  How...

Realized Gains or Paper Gains

In finance a paper gain is a gain that has not been realized yet.  If a stock we own rises we only realize the gain if we sell and lock in the profit.  The same premise is at work in our personal development.  We must “lock in” our gains. Selling a stock is a decisive...