Don’t waste my time: Every week tells of another CEO failure and another corporate disaster.  Every day more people say ‘I lost my job’; ‘I lost my...

Control your span: One of the reasons the typical organization hierarchy looks like a pyramid is because of a concept called the span of control. The span...

Leaders should fail early How do you react to failure? Do you view it as the end of something or as the beginning of a new phase? Do you accept failure...

This summer I read David McCullough’s book on the building of the Panama Canal. The book, called ‘The Path Between the Seas’, is as much about the engineering miracle as it is about the...

Business is not a sport: I dislike it when sports teams are held up as models for business teams to copy.  It is ridiculous for business teams to try to be like...

Encourage your pet pessimist: Do you have a pet pessimist at work?  Good.  Every organization should have at least one. Pessimists matter.  They enhance...

Please sleep at work: Oh, the lazy, hazy days of summer.  The perfect time to sleep at work.  You’ve never done that?  In the good old days when I had a regular...

Single-minded multi-tasking: Have you heard the one about the Jack of all trades who became the master of none?  You have?  Then why are you still so keen on...

The lack of power corrupts: Power corrupts.  Or so we believe.  And yet, it is feeling powerless which truly corrupts.  Why?  Because people who feel powerless...

Risk of knowing more than the boss Do you realize that knowing more than the boss could cost you that new job? A friend, let’s call him Pete, recently...