Category: Blog
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There’s No Place Like Home: My Long and Winding Road Back to Kansas – Part 1 of 2
I recently wrote a post (see here) about the importance of taking notes in meetings and then using those note to improve organizational accountability. Note-taking is hardly a core area of focus for this blog… but improving organizational accountability sure is, so here goes with another article on the same theme. I had a very…
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Sell… sell… sell, baby… sell! – part 2
One of the most popular posts on my blog was entitled: “Sell… sell… sell, baby… sell!” It was a stream of consciousness lament about the endless selling that we encounter in our inboxes and on social media platforms. People got to eat… I get that… but the excessive and frequently dishonest selling tactics are major turnoffs.…
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Three Surefire Ways to Become a Millionaire on Medium
[Note: I recently gave the platform known as Medium a whirl. I was drawn into the persuasive arguments that this would massively increase exposure to my work and, eventually, become a good source of passive income… which is this generation’s holy grail. I did not give it enough time and there was a lot there…
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AI… ah, AI!
A friend of mine who is a writer told me recently that he uses ChatGPT to compose his work. He described it as “a good starting point”. My poker face didn’t reveal it at the time, but I thought I was going to fall out of my chair when he said that. Seriously. Many software…
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Are we Post Post-Covid?
You know what it was like… trying to lead an organization during Covid. At first, we didn’t know what we didn’t know. It felt like free-falling. Can we actually get this thing by touching groceries or should we wash our items down with Lysol wipes first? We had no PPE. We wanted our employees to…
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Ella’s Eyes: What Diversity Training Taught Me
This post builds off of what I wrote earlier here. After several years of helping to lead a significant and much publicized turnaround, the notion of doing something else in my career began to resonate. Additionally, in my personal life, I began to wonder about the true and lasting impact of my career and whether…
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Why Resolutions Don’t Stick
Many of us make New Year’s Resolutions. Some of us succeed. Many of us don’t. Lots of us have tried so many times and failed that we don’t bother any more. We can become jaded like that. Companies can view strategic planning in much the same way. Leaders may go through the motions of setting…
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The Valuable Language of Value
There are lots of ways to talk about value. The most straightforward would be to cite the formula: quality divided by cost. This is useful as it demonstrates the relationship between quality and the costs associated with achieving that level of quality. The higher the quality and/or lower the cost, then the higher the value.…
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The Before and After Consultant
I was incredibly fortunate to have secured a position with Ernst & Whinney (which turned into Ernst & Young while I was there… the first of many mergers in my portfolio) early on in my career. I had worked for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in a regulatory agency before this and that role was quite…
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Welcome to my blog!
I am long-time blogger (based on my outside-of-work interests) and have learned to: (1) write for impact… have something to say and say it well, (2) respect people’s time… get to your point quickly, (3) write often… stale is dead and dead is gone, (4) respect your readers… never spam, annoy or sell, sell, sell,…
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