“Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything for better or for worse.” Simon Sinek Diversity, equity, and inclusion or DEI. Dare I approach this powder keg of a topic. DEI has enjoyed (or not) a new level of fame in...

"I suggest we do..." is easy to say in a sentence, but it comes with baggage. Suggestions are essential for the growth and improvement of an organization. Leaders and teams need them, but they are only useful if they come from a good place and are delivered properly....

Emotions are a difficult thing to manage, especially in leadership. Subordinates look for a steady, calm leader, especially when tension is high. Indeed, there is a time and place for emotions. When feeling particularly sad about someone's pain or excited to take on a...

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“AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.” Oren Etzioni Artificial Intelligence or AI. Heard of it? If you have not, you may need to check your pulse. AI is permeating our lives, businesses, and government at break-neck speed. I find it a bit...

“Standardize things… not human beings.” – Albert Einstein Standard operating procedures (SOPs), rule books, or company policies serve as blueprints for how things get done within an organization. I can’t tell you how many I’ve read, written, or ignored. I’m not...

Quiet quitting should sound alarm bells for leaders, and they must do whatever it takes to uncover this trend in their organization and eradicate it. According to Wikipedia (yes, Wikipedia actually includes quiet quitting in its archives), quiet quitting emerged in...

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” Thomas Jefferson the principal author of the Declaration of Independence said about it, “…not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of…but to...

“Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.” John Maxwell In over three decades of leadership, I’ve had more leaders than I can recall. Some were great. Some were horrible. I learned from all of them and I’m a better leader because of all...

Requests for applications (RFAs) have officially launched for three new Business Builder grant programs, funded by the Northwest and Rocky Mountain USDA Regional Food Business Center. In the Northwest and Rocky Mountain region, these grants are designed to empower...

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Women Veterans Alliance is excited to invite you to feature your products or services in the 2025 Women Veterans Alliance Mother’s Day Gift Guide! This 1st annual Mother's Day guide highlights and promotes women veteran-owned businesses, providing a...

A couple of weeks ago, I gave a keynote in NOLA at Performance Contractors Leadership Rally Point where I touched on this issue, and I want to share it again with my readers here. Leaders operate off of information. We take in (or should) as much information as...

When there's an elephant in the room introduce him." Randy Pausch We've all heard the expression, "the elephant in the room," which acknowledges an important or even controversial topic. These are real conversations that ought to be had between leaders and their...