I recently had the opportunity to clean out a file cabinet that held at least fifty years of information.  It wasn’t as bad as it sounds. In fact, it was highly instructive.  This file cabinet contained all sorts of records, notes, cards, receipts and other pieces of paper that not only summarized t...

When systems fail efficiency suffers. Every area of your work needs a system. Without a system, you lack consistency and put yourself at greater risk of making costly mistakes. Systems don't have to be complicated or overwhelming. Your systems are simply the way you get things accomplished. It's the...

Have you ever come to a point when you knew that you needed a change, but couldn’t quite get unstuck?   A friend of mine once said, “there are two things that we don’t like - change and the way things are.” I think of these words often but yet it hasn’t done very much to help me get free from the qu...

Children are incredibly resilient and given the opportunity, children can be incredible instructors.  While watching a group of children on the playground, several lessons came to me about how to navigate this international shift in the way that we do business.  The COVID-19 Pandemic caused the worl...

For years, I wanted to have the opportunity to work from home.  People who work from home always seemed so happy to me.  Research was beginning to tell us that people who work from home were more productive.  To be honest, there were some work tasks that I preferred to do at home instead of in the o...

Everyone has their idea of leadership, but at it’s core – leadership is influence.  Leadership is getting people from one phase to the next.  Sometimes they know where they want to go, most times they don’t. Sometimes they are excited about the journey, many times they are not. But leadership is abo...