“The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.”  Stephen Covey   What is your “main thing”? What is it that you do so well that people are willing to pay you for it? If you are not doing your main thing, or what you do best every day, chances are you are […]

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“A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before great men.” Solomon This is one of my favorite all time quotes. It is also one of the pearls of wisdom that kept Nelson Mandela inspired with hope while he spent 27 years incarcerated as a political prisoner in South Africa. It is an […]

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I have written about the Business Compass tool in a number of blog posts recently. The Business Compass is a tool that can be a very powerful way of communicating your organization’s; 1)  Vision 2) Mission 3) Values 4) Strategic and Operational Priorities 5) Brand Promise 6) Leadership behaviors I have defined all the components of the Business Compass except […]

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I am not sure who dreads a performance assessment more, the employee on the receiving end or the manager that has to prepare and deliver the assessment! I have seen assessments done many ways over the years and I have never found one that I really like. I recently read Bob Lutz’s book Icons and […]

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