Considering only the end result, there is little difference between manslaughter and murder. In both cases someone dies. The same is true about mistakes and lies, since in both instances incorrect information is provided. Based on end results, one could conclude, that the difference between mistakes and lies is a distinction without a real difference.…
When leaders provide details regarding who, what, when, where, and how, they provide the basics for an anticipated course of action. Such information generally assigns tasks, establish goals, sets time and place guidelines, and generates the basis for supervision. And although all of that information is vital, a critically essential piece is still missing. For…
Good luck and its benevolent cousins, a break, a Godsend, or a windfall, are real. So are bad luck and its disgruntling cousins, karma, a turn of fate, or a misfortune. Luck is unpredictable. Luck, both kind and cruel, often comes to call on its own time schedule, regardless of how aware potential beneficiaries or…
There are no absolutes regarding that which is viewed as funny, acceptable, or welcome in any environment that hosts two or more people. Those views are instead highly subjective in their nature, they are affected by a wide range of influencing factors, and their potential impact on a team is enormous. As a result, the…
The old metaphor of a raging bull in a china shop is graphic and easy to imagine. Not unlike the metaphorical china shop bulls, bulls of a different nature can and often do visit leadership teams, boardrooms, and organizations. Unlike china shop bulls, organizational bulls generally creep in over time. As a result, leaders and…
When the success of a plan is dependent on a single or standalone entity, such as a particular individual, a critical resource, or an anticipated course of events, that plan is said to have a single point of success. Correspondingly, it also has a single point of potential failure. For example, a non-profit’s annual staff…
Regardless of age, level of experience, or position, there are times when adults regress into pure childishness. When they do, they can quickly become petulant, grumpy, nasty, irritating, uncooperative, and well, downright troublesome. Dealing with them can be at best difficult, and in some cases, it becomes nearly impossible. If left unchecked, their ability to…
Regardless of titles, ranks, organizational flow charts (organograms), seniority, degrees, inheritances, or any other forces that put someone in a position of leadership, it’s undeniably true that not everyone is a leader. Unfortunately and as a result of that stark yet simple reality, many organizations are being led by LINOs (Leaders in Name Only). They…