Leadership

Lessons I Learned From Mergers and Acquisitions

My wife was four months pregnant the first time I interviewed to keep my job. I turned up at 8 am for our Monday morning meeting and twenty of us […]

Learning Which Fences to Hop

I’ve always hopped fences. I guess my curiosity and spirit of adventure are stronger than my fear of getting caught on the wrong side of the fence. In college inspired […]

Making Career Decisions By Focusing On the Wrong Part Of the Problem

I felt trapped. My kids were little, my mortgage was big, my lifestyle was bloated and we had a lot of medical bills. I loved the work I was doing, […]

Don’t Neglect Your Relationships

A friend told me about a saying from his mentor, “The grass is greener wherever you water it.” I’ve been married for over twenty years and I have not always regularly […]

Don’t Dip Your Quill In Company Ink

I ride bikes most weekends with a group of guys. One of the guys, taught me this lesson. Twenty-five years ago, his mentor gave him this advice, “Don’t dip your quill […]

Don’t Check Your Email 200 Times a Day

My friend Bill told me once, “Your inbox is full of stuff other people want you to work on.” The spirit of this principle is don’t be a slave to what other […]

Self-Respect and Dignity Are Easy to Ignore But Difficult to Regain

I have a friend who served a thirteen months sentence in Federal prison for an SEC (Security Exchange Commission) violation. Concurrent with the US market collapse of 2007, the US […]

Your Boss Does Not Hold the Verdict on You

Your boss, customers, company, and coworkers should not hold as much influence on you as they do. The verdict on your impact, your worth, your genius, and your value is […]

Why Serve Forty Years of Hard Labor?

In medieval times, indentured servants worked the land of a king for a fixed number of years until their debt was paid in full. The king owned the field, the crop and […]

Don’t Quit Your Job. Fire Your Boss. (Instead)

I know you already don’t believe me. DOWNLOAD FREE EBOOK HERE. You could hardly read the entire title before you rolled your eyes and said yeah right. What if it […]