I was browsing LinkedIn recently and saw an ad for a "Business Resiliency and Crisis Management Consultant" for a large healthcare provider. It discussed enterprise resiliency policies and resiliency strategies for the organization and required a certification and standards. A couple of years back I …
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I recently gave a speech on the subject of "Delivering Results in an Era of Change" to a group of CEOs that are members of the Association Forum of Chicago. This is a 4000 member organization that serves a large number of associations that are headquartered in the area. The overall theme of the …
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I recently facilitated a meeting with a very successful team of financial advisors who manage client assets in excess of $7 billion. The executive committee of this group has been a client of mine for many years. Two retirements, one recent and one pending, had created friction within the team as …
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15+ years ago Jim Clifton of the Gallup organization wrote a book called The Coming Jobs War. The consultant, McKinsey and Company, warned that they saw a "war for talent" brewing for the foreseeable future. Both groups warned that having a "good" job will increasingly be difficult to obtain and …
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Did you know that the second week of January is the busiest week of the year in US health clubs and gyms? Much of this increase is related to New Year's resolutions to "get in shape this year" but 80% of these new members drop off by the second month. That means there's only a 20% chance that you'll …
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The mind is everything. What you think you become. – Buddha I was having breakfast with a client on the Friday morning of Super Bowl weekend. It was a bright sunny day in Chicago but characteristically very cold. My client was whining a little bit about being in the throes of winter and I declared …
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As I've written about before, change is very challenging to deal with – both personally and professionally. In Europe and North America, almost 50% of marriages end in divorce. That's with TWO people! Making change happen in your own company, even if it's for the soundest of business reasons, has …
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson, French Philosopher (1859 – 1941) Fast Company magazine is a publication that I have followed for many years. In 2005, the cover of its May issue was entitled "Change or Die". Needless …
Well, it's mid-May in Chicago and spring has sprung. To me that means golf. As a matter of fact, I was supposed to play with a client the other morning and was equally eager to see him and catch up as I was to play. But the weather didn't cooperate since it was going to rain and feel like 35°. …
The pace of change in today's world is truly staggering. The Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter referred to the impact of much disruptive change as "creative destruction". Catchy phrase until you have to deal with those impacts in your own life. In our world today we are seeing this happen on a …
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