I spoke at a business gathering recently and had a chance to meet an individual on the Board of a large organization. This person has been on more than a dozen public company boards during the past 50 years. I later learned she’s been listening to management complain about issues that haven’t changed in five decades. …
In the mid 1990’s I was asked to take on a role that, quite unexpectedly, required me to be an ‘Internal Consultant’. This was all new to me. I had ‘observed’ what consultants did when they advised senior executives, but clearly, I was not one of them. I did not learn how to be an …
Connect the dots!! What’s the first thing that pops into your head when you hear that? Perhaps you see a series of dots connected by lines that zigzag across a page. Do you see any gaps between the dots and the lines? An executive, Dennis, in a medium-sized diversified business, was asked “How do you …
