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Are You Managing, Coaching, or Enforcing

Written on 4 Dec, 2009 at 15:45 in Current Issue, Industries, Leadership & Coaching, Operations, Training | viewed 567 times | 0 Comments

Too often today, managers – whether supervisors, directors, or even owners – see their role as the creator and enforcer of rules. “Be on time…,” they tell their employees, “or I will have to write you up.” “Be a team... (Continue reading)

Time Management by Values

Written on 15 Jun, 2009 at 14:53 in Operations, Training | viewed 1,371 times | 1 Comment

Time Management by Values Time management has been a topic of conversation, discussion and argument for more than 20 years and little has been resolved. Terms like “workaholic” have come into our language with little in the way of accepted... (Continue reading)

Growing Pains

Written on 2 Mar, 2009 at 23:27 in Industries, Leadership & Coaching, Operations, Training | viewed 514 times | 0 Comments

“To build a durable, long-term business, the entrepreneur will eventually have to abandon the rules that got him/her started.” –HBR 1999 Successful entrepreneurs tend to build their business in a somewhat protected niche that allows each customer to be handled... (Continue reading)

Coach, Consultant or Trainer?

Written on 2 Feb, 2009 at 22:06 in Industries, Leadership & Coaching, Operations, Training | viewed 394 times | 0 Comments

“I don’t know which we need; I only know we need help…” “It’s frustrating trying to figure out who we should be working with…” “I don’t think any of these will solve the whole problem…” “Doesn’t anyone do what we... (Continue reading)

Leaders are Not Born, they are Grown

Written on 15 Sep, 2008 at 23:16 in Leadership & Coaching, Operations, Training | viewed 1,811 times | 2 Comments

“Leadership is not magnetic personality – that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people’ – that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a... (Continue reading)