Let me tell you friend.  I am great at passing judgment.  I am great at complaining and seeing areas of weakness.  My team can and will tell you that no one is ever good enough.  No one measures up, including me.  There are continually opportunities to get better and when we get better, there are […]

I’ve noticed a pattern recently.  When I get right to the point, giving honest and open feedback, people respond better.  When I try to be softer or more politically correct, as some may say, I tend to get mediocre results.  Sometimes people respond to nice suggestions by taking action, sometimes not. At first I found this […]

One thing I have learned about myself is that the most stressful situation I can be in is to have a problem and not know what to do about it.  If I will take the time to write down a plan of attack, even if the list is massive and includes things I need to […]

I’ve been fortunate to have many mentoring influences in my life.  However, there are two that stick out as particularly impactful.  One was extremely impactful to me because he reinforced taking bold actions.  He taught me to trust my instincts and move.  Having listened to me, worked with me and observed my leadership, gave him […]

I asked my team to share their insights regarding the best coach or mentor they’ve ever had.  As we were discussing this I tried to reflect on who I might mention and what I might mention about them.  It was then that I realized how incredibly fortunate I am to be surrounded by a significant […]

A compelling vision is invaluable because it is: Motivating Exciting Inspiring Attractive to Talent Attractive to Strategic Partners Foundational for Big Things Holds Promise Sets Direction And possibly many other things that could be added to the list.  However, a vision is just that, a vision of the future.  It is not reality.  Not yet […]

I have been preaching a message that we need to be prepared to hire ahead of growth.  The only way we avoid a drop off in growth rate is to have the capacity we need for the next level already in place before the growth actually happens.  Then guess what happened the first time I […]

As a visionary, one of the greatest challenges is communicating that vision.  I know what it is.  I know what it looks like and have spent time with it, examining it, processing it.  When I share it, not everyone has the same frame of reference to understand as I do.  Thus, the challenge comes in […]

My team has been discussing the concept of hiring ahead of the growth for several months now.  The idea is that as long as we keep hiring capacity in our growth areas before that capacity gets maxed out, then the growth curve keeps moving up.  As soon as capacity gets tapped in a growth area, […]