
What’s Your Relationship Plan?
No matter what you do for a living, you’re in the relationship business. The only question is whether your “business” is getting better...


What Are You Talking About?
If someone followed you around for a week and recorded all of your conversations, what do you think they would discover? According to some p

Can You Say It?
As I reflected on the 174 messages I’ve created over the last four years, I realized I’ve never written about that subject. I came to the co

What’s Your Relationship Plan?
When a leader under-achieves personally or professionally, it’s usually because of their inability or lack of desire to build and sustain po

Ask & Receive
In many cases, the questions used by a leader, spouse or parent aren’t really questions—they’re camouflaged comments. “Don’t you think we sh

A “Dangerous Opportunity”
There is no denying we’re living and leading in a very dangerous decade. The global and domestic uncertainty we’re experiencing makes it ver

Resolve Your Conflicts The Positive Way
What can a positive leader do to reduce this kind of violence? At first, you might be thinking, “not much!” While it may be true that most i

Can We All Do Better?
“We can succeed only by concert. It is not ‘can any of us imagine better?’ but ‘can we alldo better?’ The dogmas of the quiet past, are inad

Win! Even When The Game Keeps Changing
We all know the media has a vested interest in keeping our attention; and for the majority of people, bad news sells. The question is…are yo


Stay Relevant
The leaders of Kodak used to say ‘yes’ to that question. In 1976, they had 90% of the photographic film market. Kodak was considered one of