Yearly Archives: 2017

The reality is that once you get these rules truly well understood and people actually sign up to demonstrate them, they actually start to hold each other more accountable than some of us as bosses would have done anyway.

In this episode, we're going to talk about how you can use red teaming to overcome your mental blind spots with our guest, Bryce Hoffman. He was an award-winning financial journalist who spent 22 years covering the global automotive, high-tech and biotech industries. He is the author of the 2012 bestseller, 'American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company.' He is the first civilian to have ever graduated from the US Army’s Red Team Leader Program at Fort Leavenworth and his new book is 'Red Teaming: How Your Business Can Conquer The Competition by Challenging Everything.'

If you want people to have fun, give them the day off. If you want them to learn, let's play learning games, right?

In this episode, we're going to talk about practical ways to make your meetings more effective with our guest, Dick Axelrod. He founded 'The Axelrod Group,' a consulting firm that pioneered the use of employee involvement to effect large scale organizational change. His clients include Boeing, Harley-Davidson, Novartis and Coca-Cola. His book is 'Let’s Stop Meeting Like This: Tools to Save Time and Get More Done.'

At the end of the day, great leadership is the little things done consistently. That's what it comes down to.

When you call customer service you want to know 2 things:  (1) Does the person who picked up your call care about you and...

THE OVERWHELM IS REAL I hear it all the time: “I’m overwhelmed. I can’t possibly do everything on my plate. What should I do?” I’ve never met...

When Albert Einstein said “a person who never made a mistake never tried anything new,” he spoke an undenying truth that’s constant across the...

In this episode, we're going to talk about scientific ways to lead, energize, and engage your team members with our guest, Susan Fowler. She is a professor at University of San Diego and a consulting partner with 'The Ken Blanchard Companies.' She is a bestselling author and her newest book is 'Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work ... and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging.'