Paul Miller, a UNC quarterback and business man once described discipline as “remembering what you want.” That fits with my view that...

While working with a client on raising employee engagement recently, I encountered the following trend: Out of 250 days of work,...

Employee Engagement Gallup’s Survey of the American Workforce highlights the benefits of focusing on employee engagement. Moving...

Follow me on this: Houses have never appreciated, they have inflated. When you sell your house, try buying a nicer house for the same...

Yet having a keen interest in leadership and motivation, I wonder about spreading to without what is not first spread within....

Driving home last night John Maxwell in his latest Success Magazine CD interview explained how his real joy comes from bringing out the...

KPI taught me a lesson I still apply today. The less you understand about a problem the more information you request. The more you know...

I just finished reading Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography. Having lived in California is the 70’s and 80’s I found his covering of...

Part of my job is to bring quality training to my local business market. For our tourist based market, the Disney Institute’s one day...

Price still has a unique role in our market. We continue to connote price with quality. American’s are in love with Apple and Apple’s...

Why is something that is so obvious so hard to grasp sometimes? When I mentioned casually to group of friends watching a golf tournament...

I recently was turned on to a 1984 video by W. Edwards Deming, the guru of Japanese quality and innovation. In the Five Deadly Diseases...

Innovation is hot. Everywhere is another book, publication, blog or daily tweet on the need to innovate, how to innovate, why to innovate...

I love what I do and hope you do as well. Whether it’s coaching, teaching, facilitating, or consulting, the opportunity to help people...

Lately everything I read or see is related to the power of a story.  Dan Pink, who links motivation to achievement, wrote a blog about...

Can your employees individually relate their job to your mission statement? Do your consider knowledge critical to your success? Do you...

“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water, after enlightenment, chop wood, carry water” is an old Zen saying regarding work. When...

What makes John Wooden such a unique coach? Why did he abruptly retire at the height of his success, and what happened to UCLA afterward?...

Today Auburn is the #1 team in the BCS football poll. Two years ago they had a losing season; last year they started strong then faded in...

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of how things work out.” John Wooden noted that years ago, and I am going to try...