The 5 Biggest Employee Morale Killers

The 5 Biggest Employee Morale Killers

by | Jul 18, 2022 | Culture and Collaboration, Featured

For nearly two-thirds of my 30-plus-year career, I have worked as a “middle manager” of one sort or another. For the remaining third—more than 10 years—I have been middle-managed. Of course, even as a manager, I had plenty of people above me telling me what to do. I...
A Skeptic’s Observations on Leadership

A Skeptic’s Observations on Leadership

by | Jul 8, 2022 | Featured, Leadership Development

Having just finished another article on leadership, I’m reminded of why I find most modern treatments of the subject uninspiring, uninformed, repetitive, and unoriginal.  No matter what color the wrapping, inside the best books and articles on leadership is a similar...
Strategic Planning: 5 Common Challenges

Strategic Planning: 5 Common Challenges

by | May 23, 2022 | Featured, SP-1, Strategy

Strategic planning is a process, an outcome, and—in its best form—a roadmap used by stakeholders throughout an organization to move the organization toward higher levels of achievement. Strategic planning is also a much-maligned endeavor, subject to the usual (and...
How to Deal with Dissent

How to Deal with Dissent

by | Apr 25, 2022 | Featured, Leadership Development

When it comes to dissent, my perspective is perhaps somewhat unusual if not unique. As a middle manager for 20 years, I often encountered dissent when presenting and enforcing policies that in some cases I didn’t agree with, either. And as someone who has also been...