Kochleffels of the world, unite!
My Midwestern American Methodist wife loves Yiddish. From the day she discovered she was a shiksa, her two favorite words[…]
Risk, resilience and the rear-view mirror
Over the last month, in client work sessions and in conferences in San Francisco and Chicago, I’ve had conversations with[…]
Fit for Purpose?
A lot of EHS and Sustainability leaders are quietly questioning their management systems. I’m hearing comments like: “We have a[…]
Connecting the Disconnected Executive
Many of us are suffering from Disconnnected Executive Syndrome (DES). Regardless of what may show up in the CEO letter[…]
Sitting here in (strategic) limbo…
Many of us are sitting here in limbo (with all due respect to the reggae management guru Jimmy Cliff). Senior[…]
The Year of the Peer
This post is a “New Year’s Recognition,” not a New Year’s resolution. It recognizes the reality we face rather than[…]
The art of reinvention
The first three people I bumped into were all in transition. One was a corporate client who just landed at[…]
Those powerful little one-syllable Anglo-Saxon words
No, this is not going to be an X-rated blog. It’s not about those little words, fond though I am[…]
“It’s the revenue…”
Back in the 1992 US Presidential election, James Carville reportedly posted a sign on the wall at the Bill Clinton[…]
