Leadership

My wife does a lot of projects around the home. I don’t get to help her with almost any of them. Unfortunately, I’m not that handy with tools, and never have been. Give me a screwdriver and I’m a monster; give me anything else and there’s the possibility of disaster coming. Right now my wife […]

You know, I haven’t always made the best decisions as a manager, at least not initially. Read this story I have to share with you. Back in 1988, I was working for a physician billing company. The company was going down; that’s an understatement. What was happening is the company top brass thought the business […]

Overall I’m a big kid at heart. If you look at the image I’m showing here you’ll see a corner of my room that’s consumed with a host of stuffed animals and other items. I didn’t buy a single one of these; all have been accumulated over the years as gifts from others, including the […]

Back in January I asked a question: Do Leaders Understand Their Influence? I asked that question because I’ve been talking a lot about this concept of influence in other places and, at least in my mind, influence and leadership go hand in hand. The strange thing about it all is that it seems many people […]

We’re coming upon the end of the Harry Potter saga, at least in the movies. The saga actually ended in 2007 with the final book, but the movies take a little while to get through. The importance of this series of books will be debated by many people who really have too much time on […]