Beyond the Entrepreneur’s To-Do List

Is Your PMO Working?

A Return to Passion

Build the Bus, Then Fill the Seats

Commitment is a Group Effort

Building Muscular Decision-Making

Is It Real Love?

What’s Your Magic 18/24?

Copernicus Shout Out

Beyond the Entrepreneur’s To-Do List

To mature from being a startup to a profitable, functioning company, you have to pass a few milestones. Anyone who has ever started a company or been involved in the early stages of startup will recognize the quandary — the volume of work vastly outstrips the resources and energy available.  ...

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Is Your PMO Working?

Project Management Organizations (PMO’s) have become more pervasive in business organizations and are used to ensure the progress and success of both “offensive projects” to improve positioning and market share, and “defensive projects” to safeguard survival. And yet, the Internet is riddl...

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A Return to Passion

Long term relationships are inclined to follow timeworn patterns.  As a business leader you’ll readily see how the relationship with your business and your significant other are similar. In both, the long term union produces disappointments that can become animosities, clouding perceptions, negat...

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Build the Bus, Then Fill the Seats

A speaker on the CEO circuit proclaims, “Immediately fire any employees that shouldn’t be on the bus!” When he asked the audience how many had people they should fire, nearly 200 of the 500 person audience raised their hands. The speaker continued, “Do them a favor and fire them fast!  When...

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Commitment is a Group Effort

Consider this scene…in a meeting with the board last week, you tell a fellow board member, “yes”, in response to an information request. Will you do it? Absolutely! Why? Although you’re busy you will follow through because: You value and need that individual’s support Your word is your per...

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Building Muscular Decision-Making

Depending on your company’s size, you may have between three to ten initiatives that will determine your organization’s future. Each of them requires pivotal leader decisions, which if not managed aggressively, can easily result in one to six months of delays to getting results…all due to inad...

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Is It Real Love?

When you’re a CEO in love with your company, when would a dose of disrespect be good for you? As I facilitate discussions on company vision, I run into what I call “love my company” executives. The conversation usually goes something like this: Question: What is your two year vision for your c...

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What’s Your Magic 18/24?

In some ways, the training wheels for executive goal setting were applied with the familiar childhood refrain…“what do you want to be when you grow up?”  Now, the business leader hears, “who will your company be in the next 18-24 months?”  Most companies have annual plans that link to pe...

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Copernicus Shout Out

Copernicus, you helped the world understand that the sun doesn’t resolve around the earth, could you please help technologists realize that they are not the sun? This week’s situations: 1. US IT Director says “the project can’t start until resources are assigned”; translation: hold every...

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