Happy New Year!  My gift to you is 24 BRAVE frameworks that can help make your coming year happier.  Headlines here.  Click through to the original articles (on a combination of Forbes.com and PrimeGenesis) for more. Happiness is good – Three goods: good for others, good for me, good at it Five components of BRAVE ...

During a recent coaching session with a CEO who is in an active job search, I detected frustration about his difficulty contacting people with whom he really wanted to network.  Communications are always important, but particularly critical when conducting a job search.  Networking occurs only when the person you are reaching out to responds.  Sometimes ...

This has not been an easy year.  As our economy continues to struggle, people have found numerous career challenges.  Organizations today function with a smaller number of employees; there are fewer promotions.   When there are jobs, most have found the hiring process to be slow.  The current business environment impacts everyone, whether employed or conducting ...

Leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best – together –to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose. The strongest leaders take a BRAVE approach to every one of their New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plans by examining their organization’s behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment. This seems like as good a ...

On the one hand, Virginia Rometty’s transition into the CEO role at IBM should be relatively easy. The company is in good shape. She’s been there 30 years, knows everyone, and is getting the job “because she deserves it,” as her predecessor Sam Palmisano put it. On the other hand, these transitions are never simple. ...

Years ago we were in a simpler environment.  It was almost as if we were in a fantasy world – everything went along as it should have.  Of course this was never true, but sometimes we seem to think it did.  All the technological breakthroughs have had a huge, positive impact on our world.  Along ...

There will undoubtedly be much written about the contribution that Steve Jobs made to mankind.  It is almost impossible to describe the magnitude of his impact – on almost every person in the world.    My thoughts immediately turn to one of my high school English classes, and an excerpt from a poem that I continue ...

For years leadership was based upon the concept of control.  It was designed to be effective in the Industrial Revolution.  All that has changed!  An author recently stated “in organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships.  The patterns of relationships and the capabilities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, ...

Lyle Heidemann knew exactly what he needed to do when he took over as CEO of True Value Hardware in 2005: shift the organization’s focus from wholesale excellence to retail expertise. In an effort to save money, the organization spent the three years before Heidemann took over as CEO tightly managing costs, which included headcount ...

It’s a foggy morning.  Sitting here in the cabin on the side of the mountain all I can see is the edge of the deck.  The trees, and the view, are obscured.  Glad I have the luxury of working inside this morning, relying on the internet and telephone rather than having to fight the elements.  ...