Reducing Employee Churn – Part 1
The image accompanying this post is a drawing I completed in 2024 titled "Brother and Sister." One of the biggest headaches that leaders of organizations face is high employee turnover. Turnover is expensive in [...]
Reducing Employee Churn – Part 2
The featured image for this post is a drawing I completed in 2023 called "Dancer at Rest." As stated in Part 1 of this article, experiencing excessive turnover costs employers a substantial amount of [...]
Living In Reality
“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 [...]
Leading Beyond the Chain of Command
“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 [...]
Seeing Past Our Blinders
“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 [...]
The Importance of Attitude
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 [...]
Decision Making Superstars
… 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 [...]
Humility + Will
Level 5 leadership was defined as the highest form of leader and the style present in all the great companies and in none of the comparison companies. Twenty-three years after its initial publication, Good [...]
The Loneliness Factor
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 [...]
The Value of a True Influencer
"Rowing a race is an art, not a frantic scramble. It must be rowed with head power as well as hand power." George Pocock The book “The Boys in the Boat” recounts the exploits [...]