It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date. ~Roger von Oech         I read earlier today that change is like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let...

     It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date.— Roger von Oech Story by definition is a two-way communication medium. It requires the teller and the listener. It...

Without deviation, progress is not possible. - Frank Zappa My last blog post I talked about admitting when things suck and that this VERSION  of your dream may not be working. I am not talking about the I am having a bad day.... There are some gin and tonics and a...

        I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. Michael Jordan         Starting, maintaining, sustaining, creating, working within an organization can be hard. REALLY HARD. Bone weary, I...

                  Sometimes  our ideas  seem to be too much. You know what I mean, they seem to be so big, so grand-- so visionary that others think they are just plain crazy. I want you to have those type of ideas. The...

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm. ~ Cicely Tyson Some days are just hard. There are cycles in organizations like life that are just  difficult. ...

What we call the beginning  is often the end. And to make an end is  to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.~T.S. Eliot The  top member of your organization is leaving. The process of change has begun. One phase in your organizational history is closing....

Start as you mean to go on. One of the key factors  is to define the culture you want to create from the beginning, and integrate it into how you hire people, how you treat employees, the type of customer service you provide, and the general environment of your...