“I have no special talents; I am just passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein I recently read the book Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson and marveled at all of the various interests that the [...]
On the evening of March 26, 2024 at 12:45 AM, a Singaporean cargo ship named the Dali left its dock and began heading down the Patapsco River in Baltimore. The weather that evening was [...]
“Leaders need to understand that some of their ability to lead a team comes from the tendency of people to respect the chain of command. But to really reach the next level of organizational [...]
As stated in Part 1 of this article, experiencing excessive turnover costs employers a substantial amount of money every year including recruiting, temporary workers, and lost productivity. Turnover can also negatively impact non-financial components [...]
One of the biggest headaches that leaders of organizations face is high employee turnover. Turnover is expensive in multiple ways, from hard costs such as recruitment, and hiring temporary contract workers to costs that [...]
… Not all facts are equally weighted in their importance for a decision, and this is where experience helps. An experienced leader can quickly eliminate factors and data points that will not help in [...]
“Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.” Paul Simon – The Boxer The sprinter Eric Liddell is most famous for the portrayal of his early life in the [...]
“For leaders there is an organizational responsibility to attempt to recognize our biases, or at least recognize the thinking traps that lead to biased conclusions. This is especially critical when it involves decisions about [...]
On January 27, 1967, three astronauts entered the Apollo 1 command module on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral to go through a series of tests in preparation for their upcoming space flight. Without [...]
When I was a hospital executive, each year I would look forward with anticipation for the annual employee engagement survey process to begin. The responses were a valuable measure of the internal views of [...]