During the greatest recession since the Great Depression, a company’s revenue & stock price have held up during the downturn. What do they know that we don’t know? This post was inspired by McKinsey Quarterly’s interview with Bombardier CEO Pierre Beaudoin. He explains how his company, driven by engineering goals, learned to focus on customer expectations, teamwork, [...]
Quote; “Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.” – Unknown To borrow on a proven concept from the blogisphere; Leadership is about Educating, Engaging & Entertaining (Inspiring) with a consistently positive outlook and extreme resilience. Sound like a daunting task? Unless you’re willing to step-up-to-the-plate, you don’t deserve to have people’s lives entrusted to [...]
“When obstacles arise, change your direction to reach your goal, not the decision to get there.” – Zig Ziglar The biggest obstacle or constraint that I’ve seen in most organization is tied to the belief that things can’t really change. I find that the longer people have been in organizations, the harder it is to [...]
I was recently reading a stat that boasted; “some research shows only 29% of North American employees are fully engaged. That’s a lot of productivity being left on the table.“ I can guarantee you that this is not a US centric experience, as the stats (+/-5%) are consistent with what I’ve seen across the planet [...]
Have you ever tried to get meaningful work done but just couldn’t seem to accomplish it during a normal workday? Why is it that you have to save really important work for “quite time”? The plane, train or automobile ride home / your next destination? Why do we reserve quite time after dinner when the [...]
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