Coaching for entrepreneurs, copreneurs, mompreneurs Overcoming blind spots to become better leaders! Even great leaders can improve. A friend is a very successful CEO of a large, Fortune 500 firm; his daily schedule is packed with travel, meetings, conversations and preparations for the next day’s agenda. I always enjoy the time when he can carve [Continue Reading]
The Journey
The Journey to the East is a novel written by Hermann Hesse. Hesse won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946. He is best known for his works Steppenwolf and Siddhartha. Some claim the idea of “Servant-Leadership” comes from The Journey to the East. Teams, Companies Cultures and Life are all a journey. Robert Greenleaf [Continue Reading]
New Years – let’s leave that there!
Two employees were in the break room, one was chatting non stop about her old boss’s habits, behavior and all the things the employee disliked. The other employee listened and listened then finally suggested, “Why don’t you leave that old boss at the old job?” When moving my wife’s mother and aunt to Michigan a [Continue Reading]
Seek and accept responsibility
In May of 2008, the leaders sat together and discussed what the “drivers were for our business” These leaders used a tool provided by the Global Supply Chain Forum at Ohio State University, yes The Ohio State. The drivers are: • Growth, Profitability and Stability • Customer Service Enhancements • Asset and Cost Efficiencies • [Continue Reading]
Adapt and Evolve
“A person may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.” Last week J.D.Salinger died. Salinger wrote what some have called one of the three perfect books in the American lexicon,” The Catcher in the Rye.” These three books seem to speak to [Continue Reading]