I received the DVD of my closing keynote for the World Healthcare Innovation & Technology Congress today. It was a barnburner of a speech! The attendees had just encountered three wonderful days covering all the fascinating new ideas, technologies, methodologies and change that is coming to the worl...

Some day, the graph at the right wont' seem like something weird. Maybe today it does seem out of place. Yet I continue to notice that there are a significant number of executives out there who are "moving beyond the meltdown" stage and are pursuing active strategies to keep their team or group focu...

I was in a conference call yesterday with the CEO of a global organization ; I'll be doing a leadership session with them this winter. It's one of several pre-planning calls that I'll do with this client as I shape my remarks for their meeting. I love the clarity of the CEO mind. At one point early ...

That's the new value proposition for today, and you'll do well to think about the phrase as you look to grow or maintain your top line. The number one concern for many organizations today (beyond mere survival for some) is cost reduction. If you can give them the chance to do this quickly, they'll b...

Here's a brief clip from a recent event in New York City; I focused on the need to have a forward-oriented strategy given the recent economic events. Frame of mind -- and the tone set by senior management -- is a critical factor right now. I wrote about this in Ready, Set, Done, in a chapter titled ...

This is quite unreal. A month ago, I faced a very busy September and early October, and was out on the road keynoting a wide variety of events - a leadership event for a global law firm; an economic development conference; a symposium on consumer trends; a commercial real estate conference; a leader...

I was speaking with a client yesterday about an upcoming event in Palo Alto, California. We got to chatting about, obviously, the economic challenges that swirl around us, and the mindset that is quickly enveloping so many organizations. Here's what I think is going on: there are many organizations ...

It's back! Aggressive indecision! With all the economic turmoil, leaders, executives and staff have the "deer in the headlights" syndrome. I spoke about this trend extensively on stage during the last recession in 2001-2002. People got into the message, and it restored their enthusiasm for the futur...