
One of the things many people fear is losing their employment. In fact, there is so much fear around this that I wrote an entirely separate post about it where I describe the conditions that people put up with just to avoid losing their job, or the pain of looking for another job (because frankly, […]

Have you ever seen someone who was once a “rock star”, who now is fallen from grace and glory? Or are you perhaps that person? Taking a long term view, it would seem to me that careers go through times of ebb and flow. There are times when a person is performing at rockstar level, […]

Most organizations regardless of industry, size, or uniqueness, experiences times of great expansion and times of reduction. No one is immune, not even the federal government, which is known for its ability to expand in spite of whatever is happening in the economy. And if you believe juggernauts like Apple, Amazon, and Google could never […]

Over the course of 25 years, I’ve met a lot of people. Some of the people who fascinate me the most are those brave “client-facing” individuals in sales, business development, program management, and account management. It takes a special type of person to go out there and risk rejection every day with every customer contact. […]

My wife and I recently took a business trip to Las Vegas (For my international readers, Las Vegas, Nevada is the largest city for gambling and entertainment in the United States). While “Vegas” provided an absolutely memorable experience, I realized it has a lot to teach us about how businesses get noticed. Among them were […]
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
In Leadership, the ends do not always justify the means. If you kill your team to achieve a short-term outcome, people will remember and associate you with pain.

In my 25 year career, I have led and been a part more projects than I can honestly count in just about every shape, size, scope, and dollar amount. The largest project I ever led personally was a 4 billion dollar project that spanned 2.5 years. I’ve also seen great, well-led projects and poorly-led, rope-a-dope […]

In a previous post, Why we Need a Holiday From Our Screens, I talk about what we gain when we consciously turn our screens off, including a number of alternatives to spending time on our screens. But what happens when the unthinkable happens – when our mobile device has no service or battery life, and […]
There is a direct relationship between the amount of cooperation you have in an organization and the number of resources you need. Specifically, the more cooperation you have, the less resources you need. The inverse is also true, the less cooperation you have the more resources are consumed on organizational structures, processes, systems, and governance that all exist to compensate for the lack of cooperation.