I heard a speaker this week say, “stop trying to work so hard in making things stay the same or maintaining the status quo.”  Hmmm…think with me just for a minute from the different life areas – people performance from a development perspective, customer interaction from a sales perspective, our faith practices and our beliefs…

I survived and I remain in the black!  My yearly pilgrimage to Las Vegas to speak to the National Limousine Association was successful and as always, filled with tremendous personal learning.  If you own a couple of cars, buses, a large truck or anything that carries humans, you might consider joining the 6,000 members of…

It was a simple idea.  Everyone at the conference table loved it.  They all shook their heads in agreement because it made so much sense. Then afterwards nothing happened and everyone pointed at each other as the reason why the idea died.  Have you been there?  Leadership is hard enough, but when it is required…

Yes it is true…you do not have to have a great team to win.  This has been proven over and over again in business and in sports.  Talent and leadership certainly helps, but sometimes “lightning in a bottle,” right time, right place and the right circumstances do contribute to wins. Imagine with me for a…

For the past two weeks I’ve been working with two executive teams that have been struggling in getting sustainable change with their people.  Sound familiar?  In one case it was determined to be the professional confidence in them to hold others accountable for behavior that would control the activity they needed to achieve results.  The…

You will choose to make it so by living each day with more enthusiasm and zest for life. You will make 3 new friends who you have not even met yet. You will set specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely goals for 2013. You will cross another item off of your bucket list of things…