Is Your Hard Hat Doing The Managing?

We all know that the emotional tone for any organization starts at the top and this is true in construction management. Highly skilled professionals in this field are often lacking the skills needed to manage effectively and allow their hard hat to set the tone. As…

Is “Tired Of Trying” An Excuse Not To Innovate?

Ways To Help Your Employees Embrace Change

If you want to improve your team’s performance, react to changing market demands or gain a competitive edge, you will at some point have to introduce change to your organization. You’ll need to ask people to adopt new procedures, learn additional skills…

It’s Better To Be Polite Than Kind

What we should learn: Don’t put too much weight on kindness.

Why?

Let me explain please.

Leadership Development In Afghanistan

After decades of war, Afghanistan is confronted with many challenges, not the least of which is training future leaders for the new Afghanistan. In Afghanistan political, social, economic, and educational infrastructures must be rebuilt. The men and women who will…

Finding Your Tree

Julia Butterfly Hill, famous for living in an ancient Redwood tree for two years to prevent its being cut down, asks: “What is your tree?” What in your life calls for you to be bigger…

The Scarcest Commodity and Resource in Business Is …

Engaging Collaboration

We live in a new era — mostly of self-expression, but not so much of listening. We are not Hamlet so much these days —…

Learning From Princes

I had the unique privilege of interviewing Ida Nielsen, bass anchor for Prince and now stepping out in her own right as a singer — songwriter, following Prince’s tragic and premature death, age 57. In the interview and subsequent private conversations with Ida we discussed a number of…