Being a leader is a difficult task in today’s business world. In a fast-paced organization with ever-changing challenges and roadblocks, leadership can be a stressful role to have. And when you have your leadership “hat” on at the office, it can feel as if you lose yourself in the shuffle. Engaging in authentic leadership can Read More >

How Are Your People Management Skills? What the Board Thinks… What is the likelihood the people in your organization don’t feel as though you know how to relate to them? According to a recent study by the Center for Leadership Development and Research at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, it’s actually pretty high, especially if your board Read More >

What makes a great leader? Is it the way a person takes charge of projects? Or is it the way a person leads teams? Many find the integral qualities that make a great leader are more than the sum of these. Today’s great leader has several traits — organizational skills, excellent people management and confidence. Read More >

Do CEOs care how history will judge them? Do they care if they leave a positive legacy, one where employees, customers and the community at large remember them with respect and admiration? The following is a reprint of the article I wrote for CEO – Chief Executive Officer back in 2010.  I’m reprinting it because Read More >

What makes a great leader? Why do employees gravitate toward people like Steve Jobs while other leaders struggle to gain a following? A significant amount comes from personality—outgoing, likeable people with strength of character naturally attract others. But another very significant factor is one’s beliefs and values. These take many shapes and can include, for Read More >

“How to be a CEO.” It’s a popular Google search phrase. So much so, in fact, there are about 1,130,000,000 results (yes, that’s billions). The abundance of articles, blogs, infographics, and tweets about seeing, becoming, and conquering it as a CEO are overwhelming at best. The truth, however, is this: if you’re searching this topic, Read More >

Risk avoidance is a natural, daily function of the CEO, business owner and entrepreneur. After all, as Investopedia defines it, you’re the “highest ranking executive…whose main responsibilities include developing and implementing high-level strategies, making major corporate decisions, [and] managing the overall operations and resources of a company…” By definition, you are responsible for the organization’s overall health, Read More >

Every successful brand/business has a value statement. This simple statement has become just as important as mission and vision statements, and for good reason. It is how a brand is set apart from all others—clearly defining its desirability. We can see this, for example, in the value statement for Whole Foods, which the company has Read More >

You’ve been around long enough to have heard all the popular management terms come and go, but transformational leadership is one theory with staying power. It works because it requires the one person who is the face of the company to be completely transparent and authentic in his or her service to company values and Read More >

What is the purpose of your organization? This may seem like such a simple question to answer, especially for well-established companies; yet, so many fail to grasp its gravity. Consequently, this results in confusion, lack of motivation, and siloes among teams. To understand and deliver on a purpose requires more than just a mission statement. Read More >