How to Nourish Critical Thinking & Make Better Business Decisions
Countless articles have been written on how to be more efficient, productive and make more informed and better business decisions. Executives spend thousands of dollars on time management, energy management, schedules and philosophies that support a better, more efficient use of our time. These are all certainly valuable – up to a point. Are we overlooking what is right in front of us? Quite literally – do we diminish the present? A recent study headlined on Harvard Busine
Systems Thinking: How to Break Down Silos & Build a Collaborative Culture
Companies built on silos are long a thing of the past. Or perhaps we wish they were. Silos by their very name implies an archaic way of doing things – and at worst suggests that the organization is inefficient or that employees are entrenched in positions and operating out of sync from the whole. To be clear, by silos I don’t mean how an organization arranges itself (Here is where the sales folks sit; there is where the engineers work.) Nor are silos necessarily synonymous
Creating a Successful Culture
My client’s business has two thriving locations and he stood to inherit a third. This is when he came to me with a question for our coaching agenda. “How,” he asked, “do you change culture? Can it be done?” In his case, he described his existing culture as “a culture of success” in both locations. “That’s just the way it is around here,” one of his team members had told him. The third location was completely the opposite. Business had long since stagnated and the employe
