We are always learning, or at the very least, should always strive to be learning. The pace of today’s industry doesn’t allow us to slow down. Marketers can’t...

Many people think so. Several organizations are leading the way for female development programs because of a perceived need to bring women along a different...

My dad taught me my word was “bond.” When you’re a great salesman and you’ve got a lot of charisma, you’re very close to “Bulls***-McGee.”...

If social media accomplished anything, it brought brands out into the open. It forced brands to respond - in public - to their consumers. Not just the...

I think generally people in kind of management science, they call them leadership thinkers, are moving away from the idea of management because it sort of...

One of the most challenging interviews for me to ever get I actually lost in the same day, because of this thing that is commonly referred to as “work-life balance”… 

Should you ever give away your services (or products) for free? This has been an on-going discussion in the speaking community. And recently I found that...

One of the most important things that I’ve realized about habits is that so often people are looking for that magical one-size-fits-all solution – “if I could only figure out the...

Nothing worth doing is without a collection of awesome myths. The original intent is lovely. “Here’s something that works, come follow me!” The problem with myths is...

We can talk about strategies like great employment brand and bias free recruiting and having strong retention policies, but for me, the biggest impact that...

We’ve moved from a world of buyer beware to a world of seller beware.  In the old days sellers had a lot more information than buyers, and that gave sellers an opportunity to...

I had a new book come out on February 29th. The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More and Change the Way You Lead Forever is elegant, compact and is already getting lots...

Well if I were you I would probably consider doing a combination of big data and what I call small data. Really big data is, of course, an accumulation of...

An oft-quoted statement from acclaimed management consultant Peter Drucker asserts that "culture eats strategy for breakfast." Yet even today, many companies pay more attention to their...

I think that every time we are present in a stressful moment, people respond to us in a different way. They respond to us as someone who is confident and...