I'm excited to tell you about my best leadership technique.

I watched a great analysis of Ex Machina on YouTube the other day, and the narrator spoke about how all character growth in a movie is based on three areas: weakness, need, and desire.

There are little fires everywhere in the office. And we get so busy putting out those fires we can spend a whole day — even a week — spinning around and around spraying from our fire extinguishers. In the end, it’s all about time management.

In today’s new world of work, many managers are struggling to find the best way to motivate, energize, and most of all KEEP their employees. And it’s getting harder every day.

Strategic moves create a leap in value for the company, its buyers, and its employees while unlocking new demand and making the competition irrelevant. They present analytical frameworks and tools to foster an organization's ability to systematically create and capture "blue oceans"—unexplored new market areas.

FADE is a quality performance model and a simple methodology for business improvement. I use it often with clients to help them grow their business or initiate a major change in their career.

It’s a great tool for brainstorming and encouraging team participation. It allows you as the leader, to help your team understand the root causal elements of a problem and (have them) identify areas of improvement. They solve their own issues!

It’s a great snapshot to get a better understanding of where each member of your team is and where they need to go. Our job is to do less formal quantification and more informal qualification with each team member — we’re looking at 9-10 employee teams, not 90-100.

The Pareto Principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the "vital few"). Other names for this principle are the 80/20 rule or the law of the vital few.

Bullies will come out of their caves to exploit this vulnerability and target your confidence.

Communication is a critical component of almost any day-to-day activity. Your audience might be a group of clients, a customer in your store, your team, or just the most significant prospect you’ll ever land.

We’ve all done it — staying too long at a company and then getting laid off.

How do we make our meetings better? Get more accomplished in less time? Shut down the gabbers and get the smart people talking? I have three actions that make my meetings fun, collaborative, and powerful.

We all love our sleep. It’s the only time we have to ourselves, and rightly so, we should be selfish when it comes to healthy, restful sleep.

You’re a good manager. You listen to your people. You help them with obstacles. You try your best to be a better leader.

​But for some reason, your department is stagnant. You aren’t getting the ‘hot’ projects. Your team comes to work defeated and war-torn. And worst of all, you see other teams all moving up.

​​What’s going on? Your team isn’t effectively growing and developing to allow all ships to rise. Many managers complain about team infighting, missed deadlines, focusing on emergencies rather than priorities, and a general malaise of new work, ideas, and solutions.

You work hard. You come in early, stay late. You're good friends with everyone. If asked, you jump for your boss.

​But for some reason, you’re not moving up. You don’t get that promotion. You get paltry bonuses. And worst of all, people whom you’d never expect to move up, do.

​​What’s going on? You’re not playing the game by the same rules that THEY do.

I believe that staying abreast of new ideas, trends, and information is essential to a high-performing career and business. My job is to help YOU cut through the noise and find resources that are worth consuming and energize your spirit. ​This is my gift to you. Enjoy!

How much do the important movers and shakers know you, like you, and find you valuable? Because if you’re one of those employees who think if they just do their job — and they will be rewarded with more money, a promotion, and various accolades — you are sorely mistaken.