Leadership

What great leaders do in tough times

Over the past year we’ve been seeing news about company layoffs of 10% or more of their people.

The Secretary Who Became CEO

I’ve been going to Cape Cod since I was 3 months old. My mom was born in Cambridge and grew up in Natick and…

What does it take to build and sustain a great company?

Find people who are already motivated

I’ve been an entrepreneur for nearly 20 years and over those years, I’ve had to push people…

A common barrier observed in many Fortune 1000 companies

Nearly all problems are connected to training

If I had to isolate the one thing that I think makes all the difference to a…

Some Harvard kid knows better than Bezos?

I saw this snippet the other day about a time when Jeff Bezos visited Harvard Business…

Burn the ships

Last week and continued into this week, in the business world, there’s a lot of noise and commotion around the government PPP…

Attaining Competence

Over the years we’ve trained a lot of people and I’ve observed the sequence that I think is ideal in order to accomplish…