Balancing Compliance with Vision
One of the most challenging endeavors for mid market leaders is to clearly and passionately communicate the vision for their … Read more
4 Pitfalls to Watch For in Your New Year’s Strategy
You’ve come up with your three top transformational initiatives for 2012. Like most leaders, you’re jazzed about the new beginning, … Read more
Top 10 Reasons Business Acquisitions Fail
Guest post by Zane Markowitz, Senior Managing Director, McLean, Markowitz & McNaughton Division of The McLean Group, LLC, McLean, VA. … Read more
Here’s Why You Should Share Information with Your Employees
How does sharing information empower employees? Think about trying to fix a stalled car without the basic knowledge of auto … Read more
Book Review – “The Primes”
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right name.” This Confucian reference was quoted early and it … Read more
Working for Both Hyperbolic and Incremental Growth
About half way through most strategic planning processes, when you’ve come to the spot where you’ve identified what is working … Read more
Crossing the Bridge
This morning I received an email from my favorite photographer. Bill Maile takes terrific landscape photos of Northeastern Pennsylvania and … Read more
3 Ways to Validate Your Vision
Finally, some brave manager got up the gumption to ask you what the vision of the company was. It’s not … Read more
The Deep Dark Secret of What Drives Value in Your Company
This is the second in a two-part blog entry. In the last blog entry, we discussed value drivers and defined … Read more