Are you falling off the tightrope?

Work-life balance is the number two concern I run into in everyday conversations I have with managers these days (number one is conflict resolution with someone they manage). The tightrope of walking the fine balance between what needs to be done to sustain the...

The Lonely Solopreneur

Your better half doesn’t want to hear another word about the business and none of your friends really understand what you do for a living. Their advice is often well meaning but grossly misplaced and pretty much useless. There is nowhere to turn, no one to vent to....

Is Your Team Balanced?

Ying and Yang. Male and Female. Good and Bad. The whole world is made up of just the right amount of both. When that balance is lost, so are we. Some examples of balance gone awry are: Female infanticide due to China’s one child law has caused villages of single young...

The Good Boss

I’m old. I may not look or feel old-but I’ve got over a decade under my belt in a board room across two continents and these eyes have seen a lot of Good and Not So Good Bosses in action. I also have clients who are Amazing Bosses. I can tell, believe me. When you...

Make them weep!

You might be surprised to hear that I advise my clients to make their teams cry. As often as possible. That’s right, what I want for everyone is to actually experience what I have in giving the right kind of unexpected and well deserved acknowledgement to a member of...

What business should I start?

This question hounds so many people I meet. It seems that in this day and age of increased entrepreneurialism and the explosion in the number of small businesses; this is a very important question. Based on having answered this question for my own life and having...