Accountability…A Tale of Two Leaders

Last week, Mitsubishi Motors announced that they cheated on fuel-economy standards. They admitted that this cheating affects about 620,000 cars but that further investigation might bring those numbers up to the millions. Sound familiar? Last October, I published two blogs about Volkswagen doing exactly the same thing. Only this time,...

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Connect

  People forget what you said, People forget what you did, People remember how you made them feel.            Maya Angelou In extensive travels around the United States and internationally, I meet a lot of people. People of all types, from all walks of life, from many different...

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Give Everyone A Voice: Indaba

Not long ago, in Botswana, I had the privilege of participating in Indaba, a Zulu and Xhosa method of decision-making that brings all interested parties into the conversation. Instead of a small group of leaders making unilateral decisions for the group, without any input from those affected, those affected...

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Good Luck In The Meantime

Saab has been my car of choice for a long time. They’re fun to drive, great in the snow, and last a long time with proper care. A few years ago, I was sorry to see the company drive off to the big parking lot in the sky. Since Saab...

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Facing Facts

As I shared with you in my last blog, Spaces In Between, last week I took a Clarity Break in Arizona. By a wonderful coincidence, the desert was blooming. A rainbow of bright colors sitting atop an unending vista of various kinds of drab cactus was a fitting landscape...

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Spaces In Between

“Clarity arises in the spaces in between.” Henning Mankell. I’ve been working pretty hard. I’ve been caught up with various client needs, EOS installations and quarterly meetings, and getting up and running with a few new clients. For Wharton Global Consulting Practicum, I’ve been overseeing MBA teams working on international...

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Cheating With Intent

Have you ever been surprised to see a huge and seemingly sturdy tree lying on its side on the ground after a big storm? Then you took a closer look and noticed it was hollow inside. No wonder it fell. If your organization has a rotten core, eventually it will...

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Savor Silence

Have you ever watched a seemingly interesting and informative presentation and felt like you were missing something…or everything? Just as you were about to understand a concept…click…on to the next one? I recently sat through a series of team presentations on various projects. Nice, well laid out and easy-to-follow slides....

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