• Inspiring People to Achieve Epic Wins

    Inspiring People to Achieve Epic Wins

    “An Epic Win is an outcome that is so extraordinarily positive that you had no idea it was even possible until you achieved it. it was almost beyond the threshold of imagination and when you get there...

  • Achieving Peak Performance

    Achieving Peak Performance

    “No one appreciates the agonizing effort (Miyamoto) Musashi has made.  Now that his years of training have yielded spectacular results, everybody talks about his “God-given talent.”  That’s...

  • Walking in a Straight Line

    Walking in a Straight Line

    “You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.” — Alvin Toffler Robert Krulwich of NPR distilled...

  • Be Present and Listen Deeply

    Be Present and Listen Deeply

    “Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. Leaders who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.” – Anonymous Listening...

  • Why Pursuing Big Ideas is Killing Your Culture

    Why Pursuing Big Ideas is Killing Your Culture

    The best indicator of successfully developing a continuous improvement culture is your ability to engage people. Because “engagement is all about participation,” according to communications consultant...

  • Seeing What Makes Processes Tick

    Seeing What Makes Processes Tick

    Daniel Weil is a partner of Pentagram and a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art.  Daniel has been working as an architect and designer since 1977 and his projects have included products, packaging,...

  • Changing How We See Ourselves

    Changing How We See Ourselves

    Meet Bill Strickland.  He is the President and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation and delivers educational and cultural opportunities to students and adults within a culture that fosters innovation,...

  • “Seeing” Red

    “Seeing” Red

    In 2009, Charles Jacobs published a book entitled Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn’t Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science.  In it, he discusses the power of mental paradigms...

  • Structuring the Development of People

    Structuring the Development of People

    I have written before about the importance of the structure and physical space in driving the development of right behaviors in an organization.  On my last trip to Japan, I was again stuck by the way...

  • Mastering New Skills

    Mastering New Skills

    A few years ago, I was challenged to create a sales boot camp to significantly reduce the time it took to master the selling process in a retail furniture environment.  Whereas it had previously taken...