Can you imagine telling your boss that you deserve a raise because you come to work on time every day? Or that she shouldn’t fire you for poor performance because you tried really, really hard? Last week on Leadership’s Future a young man named Andrew started a conversation. During it he...

Did you read the links from yesterday? I hope so, because some of these quotes play off those articles. “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.R...

“Behind every successful woman there is an astonished man.” Last year I wrote about the global glass ceiling; today I have seven fascinating articles on corporate women. More of the same—or are things changing? Kids don’t think so; in fact they’re more pessimistic. “T...

I’ve always had a sneaking suspicion that as important as hard work, good planning, etc., are, there was something else at work in my life. Something outside of my control and I wanted to know what it was. I finally decided it was luck—definitely outside my control. I wrote recently abut how...

As you probably know there are hundreds of ways to mess up a culture and a lack of authenticity is one of the big ones. There’s a lot about written about authenticity, but are you aware that one of the quickest ways to announce your lack of authenticity is to issue ultimatums? Thousands of tim...

How much longer do you think it will take corporate Earth to get off their terrified, or comfortable, collective asses and embrace a real, live, authentic, proven solution to most of their problems? Jaideep C Prabhu, Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise at Judge Business Scho...

Yesterday, I came across a very interesting poll in our local paper. It was just listed as "Poll Results" so I do not know the source of the poll. I have searched on line and as of yet, I have not found its source. The poll asks, "Would you rather have your children be good or be happ...

Sean Kelly of Franchise Pick, one of the best bloggers I know, sent an email to his Bizzia colleagues suggesting that we might find it interesting to weigh in from our own perspective regarding the couple who just won Sean’s Franchisee From Hell Award. (Don’t miss the Biz Levity and Smal...

It seems that every time the leader of a corporation-in-trouble replies to the question, “What happened…?” the answer is that a ‘perfect storm’ of factors caused the problems. Steven Pearlstein offers some great comments on this attitude, but it was what he said near th...

Last month I wrote an article linking to a study at Harvard on the dangers of hiring based solely on experience. On a different, and seemingly unconnected subject, everyone has read and heard the term ‘risk’ and ‘risk assessment’ in conjunction with our current economic hell ...