Self Development

Return on Character: The Real Reason Leaders and Their Companies Win How is leadership character formed?  How does it creates value, and how does that value spread throughout the organization? Well researched, well documented, well written, convincing, credible, and saturated with trust that is admirable. Just the beginning is blunt and to the point, “Just seeing the words character and business leadership in the same sentence brings...

Enjoy the ride because your career will be a roller coaster. I sat with the psychologist asking him why I was stressed out after successfully speaking at a World Class Supply Chain Optimization and SAP Conference in Orlando. I expected doors to open, fantastic job offers and maybe even a throne made of gold to look down at my minions. I found it insufferable that I wasn’t being hailed as the next best thing since sliced bread. Then...

When I took a Dale Carnegie course on public speaking we had to give 3 small speeches a night. There was a formula to follow, but there were no note cards or Power Point slides, just your memory and the formula to make it more compelling. If that was not fear inducing enough, during one class we had to re-enact old television commercials and perform like crazy cheetahs or baboons. It was embarrassing and humiliating at the same time....

When I found myself recently consulting the US Navy on how to improve their Supply Chain, it was another noteworthy peak in my career- as a consultant. In that brief consulting gig, I read reports addressed to the Secretary of Defense and during talks with the Navy the pentagon was mentioned as well as being “war time ready.”  So how did I get to this point in my career? I wasn’t one of those people that knew all along what I was...

Apple’s reason to exist is “lead the digital music revolution” and “reinvent the mobile phone” Google’s mission is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”   Those are visions that people breathe every day. Are your company leader’s truly inspiring people? Are they building an inspiring vision, attracting the best talent, building the best teams, creating a exceptional culture and...

First a few questions. Are you self aware? Are you ready to let go of what work makes you feel empty and cynical? What work fulfills and excites you? What do you do better than others? And finally – if you won the lottery what would you do? What would you do if you had all the money in the world? It comes down to what fulfills and excites you, doesn’t it? Why aren’t you doing this as a career right now? Think about it and don’t let...