This morning at our weekly MAC Toastmasters Meeting I was asked to give a short recap of my Saturday breakout session “Pumping Mental Iron”. One of the things I didn’t get to do on Saturday, since my time was shortened (read my last blog post) from 50 minutes to about 35-40 minutes, was to do [...]

The best book on branding I’ve read is “What is Branding?” by Matthew Healey. I recommend it be your reference book on branding.  Every graphic designer, product designer, artist, and business person should have a copy of this book and look through it regularly.
Branding is more than a logo, more than design, more than….listen to [...]

Look at your business for a moment.  How can you increase your viability?  Even in the largest companies, there are areas where we are “flying by the seat of our pants”, as my mother used to say. 

Are you measuring what your competitors are measuring? What ratios are they looking at, that perhaps you are not? [...]

Recently at a continuing education class on Co-Dependency, I was given a handout I found hilarious.  It is most funny if you are familiar with the twelve steps of any recovery program, which are, by the way, not just good recovery steps, but excellent steps to follow in daily life in your business and personal [...]

 The discussions of employee re-engagement we’ve been having this month have been filled with great information and lots of interaction.
 If you would like to register for the a complimentary webinar entitled Re-engaging the Workforce , which includes three industry experts discussing how to re-engage employees while uncertainty still exists, scheduled for Thursday, February 18th, you can use the following link:   www.ttidisc.com  [...]

last night I watched the premiere of a new show, right after the Super Bowl.  It was called “Undercover Boss”.  Another on the long list of ubiquitous reality tv shows.  Truthfully, I expected to be turning it off after a few minutes.  That did not happen.  In fact, I was amazed, impressed, and am a [...]

 
For many years we have been studying leadership, and it is the topic of development courses, books, workshops, keynote speeches, blogs, and so forth.  Are leaders born or made?  Who are our best examples of leadership?  Is good leadership different today than twenty years ago? Who was a better leader: Lincoln or Patton?
 
We read the [...]

This seems to be the question of 2009.  Especially when there is a Boomer at the helm and a Generation X/Y workforce. Alright, leaders, this may not be what you want to hear, but it’s time for you to work on something.
What?  Oh GAWWW>>>>here she goes again.  yep.
Engagement is about relationship.  If your team doesn’t feel [...]

You are a passenger on an airplane.  You look out the window of the place and the wing is on fire.  The oxygen masks drop down.  The flight attendants make an announcement that the pilot is going to have to make a crash landing on water.  You hear yelling: “Brace…Brace”.  People around you are starting [...]

You’ve heard it a zillion times: “Leaders are Readers.”  My friend Charlie “Tremendous” Jones said “5 years from today you’ll be the same person you are today except for two things: the people meet and the books you read”. One of my favorite quotes. He passed on a few months ago, and my job is [...]