If you agree, you have a fellow traveler…ME! I have been the Chief Human Resources Officer twice in my career, and even while I was the CEO of several company’s I have never delivered on my threat to eliminate the annual performance review. Although I made some small steps along the way, I never really [...]

If you have read my first book (You’re in Charge…What Now?), and then read Lead with Love, you will realize that the mnemonic I used in the two books was different. Well, there is no doubt that I added three “essential steps.”  I also changed the meaning of a fourth. The new book created the [...]

Ok, now you are in for a moralizing, ethical principles lecture. I am a fanatic about the word integrity, and I mean fanatic. It is my most fervent belief that, “All human relationships rely on the concept of integrity.” Yes, I mean all! In short, I believe that the only way to have a quality, [...]

Somebody suggested to me that every leader should establish a “Performance Day.” I actually thought this was a bizarre and almost insane idea, because I believe everyday should be a performance day. So I tended to laugh it off as another fad, but the more I thought about the idea, I concluded it might just [...]

How many times have you had somebody working for you who went from Star to failure? That happens to all of us at one time or another. What have you done? Is there a cure? Well, I must say, this has happened to me, and it was very painful. In one instance, I promoted a [...]

How is your “batting average” on hiring? Well, I am a very highly qualified interviewer, but, I have made many bad hires. Yes, I preach good interviewing techniques, and yet I have managed to be wrong almost 30% of the time. In baseball, a 700 batting average would be outstanding (in fact probably impossible), but, [...]

Far too many people end up in a job for which they are either not technically qualified for, or which they simply do not have the right behaviors, temperament or attitude. If you have ever been in a job that was wrong for you, then you precisely know the issue. I have had that situation, [...]

How many times have you heard that? Many people use that expression to explain away their inability to explain failure. Others use it to excuse their own failure to lead, by in essence “blaming” the other party for a failure to communicate (meaning listen) rather than to accept responsibility. In other cases it really is [...]

I am so into passion, and you should be too. If you have any question about the power of passion – emotion – in the work place, just think about the last time you saw a total, shocking upset in sports.  There simply are too many cases where the better team, did not win. Where [...]

Most of us plan. Some better than others, but most of us plan. I am a planning obsessive. Yes, it may actually be too much; but I have this unbelievable role model in my life, so I could not be sloppy on planning even if I wanted to be. That role model is my wife. [...]