According to polls, 44 percent of Americans working from home would like to continue that arrangement. In Canada, while two-thirds of those polled indicated they missed their work colleagues, roughly 80 percent said they would … Read More
Trade Anger for Humanity
Are you seeing the smoldering anger or outright flames of indignation that I am? People are divided over politics, over COVID vaccines, over whether children should be in school for their mental health or home … Read More
Enabling Extraordinary Results During a Pandemic
How are you spending your workday? Are you drowning in Zoom meetings? How many times do you check email and voicemail messages or pick up your smartphone? Stephen Covey calls it the “whirlwind.” You are incredibly … Read More
The Board Mindset Maturity Model
How well are you navigating to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) maturity in your organization? Have you developed milestones to assess the breadth of your efforts and to communicate to staff, investors, and the community? … Read More
Who Would Ever Have Expected This?
Recognize the power of mindset. I have written of this before; it is so powerful that it bears repeating. Over the past couple of years, a dear friend lost both of her elderly parents; now … Read More
Work to Your Strengths, Embrace Differences
I have often advised people of this: work to your strengths. Build your team with those who have different and complementary skills to yours. A humorous incident reminded me of this. “How long ago did … Read More
Prioritizing Your ESG Efforts
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations are increasing in prominence – across the globe. Delivering shareholder value, maintaining financial strength, being recognized as a top employer, excelling in marketing, capturing a large market share, and … Read More
Deep Thinking
Many executives are inadvertently getting in the way of innovation, creativity, and productivity from their teams. And sometimes from themselves. We now have ready access to more information from more sources than at any other … Read More
The Power of Brevity in a Virtual World
For many years, I considered executive summaries and/or abstracts as analogous to most effective executive interactions. “Be bright. Be brief. Be gone.” one of my former leaders used to say. That was a great lesson. … Read More
