IIt's hard (maybe impossible) to avoid stale thinking.

We have 100's of problems to solve and ideas spinning in our heads any given day.

We have to...

Remember that arcade game, Pole Position?
Or, for my Millennials... Mario Kart? 

The way to win was to steer clear of obstacles and it often...

Sometimes, in order answer big questions about the future, we have to time travel.

I start with 2 questions when I talk with leadership teams about...

I have hard news for you.

It's been my experience that when I meet with and listen to business owners and their leadership teams, the...

“We tend to overestimate what can be done in the near future and grossly underestimate what can be done in the distant...

Once I started thinking about long-term goals in this way, it made them clearer and helped me uncover the reality of what it would take to...

My business coach John Richie recently shared some observations with me on what each decade of life and work represents as we...

Ever been working with your team through an idea or obstacle, but you get lost in what you're really trying to solve? 

Often we get wrapped up...

Often at the start of a business, the Visionary is the big-picture thinker AND the person managing the day-to-day. But as the business matures, the...

You ever thought to yourself about a team member, "You have ONE. JOB. How are we missing this?"

Or, "How do they not see that what they do...

Who is the worst leader you ever worked for? It's not hard to remember them, right?

What was so "off" about the way they led?

If I had to bet, it...

Engineer and management consultant W. Edwards Deming was famous for saying, “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it...