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Hey! Are you doing risk management planning?

The answer better be YES!

"Please let this project go through without any issues!"

A new client told me the other day they don’t bother with risk management plans. “What’s the point,” he said, “It takes too much time and it’s always rush, rush, rush around here.” My response, “You have a problem, starting […]

Teamwork in Sports and Business

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” Michael Jordan

For most of us, our first “team” experience occurred before we were ten years old. It may have been a school soccer team, little league baseball team or neighborhood “pick-up” game. We learned to play the game, and to cooperate with others. “Do […]

Avoiding Difficult Performance Discussions is Not Nice

One of the excuses we commonly hear as a reason for not actively engaging in dialogue with employees regarding their performance is "We’re really nice at XYZ organization" or "We’re non-confrontational." Translation, "We have people who are underperforming, but we’d rather not have those conversations." Or, "It’s just easier to let the underperformance continue as […]

What Young Leaders Need

When young people take on a leadership role for the first time there is much to learn, but they have to perform by delivering success in order to keep their job. For an organization of any size to put their faith in a young person and ask them to start leading a group shows trust. With […]

Book Review: The Drucker Lectures

Essential Lessons on Management, Society, and Economy

I’ve recently read a book sent to me by McGraw-Hill called The Drucker Lectures: Essential Lessons on Management, Society and Economy (published by McGraw Hill, 2010). They thought I might be interested in reading this book and providing a review. They were so right! If you haven’t […]