May 22, 2012

Lately I have spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about what the workplace of the future may look like. For what seems like forever the workplace has been relatively unchanged. Cubicles, Offices, Meeting Rooms, Multipurpose Spaces; dependent on the size of the workplace it had more or less or each of these, but they were all there none the less. With...

May 17, 2012

For ages the pundits, educators, and practitioners alike have sought relentlessly to figure out what it is that leads some businesses to successful outcomes while others stagnate, sway, or even realize certain death. Often times from afar two businesses can look, feel, and act very similar. They may be in a similar industry, create similar products/services,...

May 9, 2012

This post was originally written for 12 Most and can be found here. We all want to sell more. Whether it is our job, or it is in our lives, we are always selling. Selling is a requisite to building meaningful business, customers, and friendships. Yet sometimes we get so into selling our products and services that we forget where it all began. This past weekend...

May 4, 2012

I hear and read a lot of blogs throughout the web on the topic of servant leadership. It is a philosophy that I subscribe to, and I hope that those who I work with and for would agree with that statement. Servant leadership is incredibly rewarding for the leader because it builds a level or trust and reciprocity that can never be created through a traditional...

Apr 24, 2012

  In the new world we move fast. We seek to rapidly meet objectives and achieve success with every idea almost as soon as we come up with them. If strategy is the engine that drives business success then execution is the oil that keeps the engine lubricated. And without oil, even the most perfectly tuned Ferrari becomes merely a beautiful facade of a once...

Apr 9, 2012

Due to the high pace of proliferation surrounding us, information and technology have become rapidly more available to everyone. What used to be considered radical transformation is now merely change within many organizations; Placing us in a world once dominated by the fortune 500 but not necessarily any longer. With each “Out of Nowhere” success we are...

Apr 2, 2012

    Over the past few months I have closely followed the crowd as they speak about “The Millennial” as it relates to life, work, and social skills. Article after article riddled with opinions, stereotypes, and generalizations about an entire generation that does little more than magnify the shortcomings and belittle the contribution that...

Mar 19, 2012

Last week I tackled a topic that was driving me crazy…Buzzwords that are being used in business that have lost their meaning. I’m really not one to jump on a blog theme or usually even cover similar topics in back to back fashion but I realized after writing the first post that this whole buzzword thing is an epidemic of sorts and it is infecting...