The Key is Not the Plan…It’s the Planning

A well-developed business plan, with lots of PowerPoint slides, appendices, bibliographies, all wrapped up in a nice shiny binder, is a great thing.…

Think Inside a Bigger Box

The phrase “think outside the box” is one of those clichés that started out with a basis in a great idea but has…

Free Agent Nation is primarily designed for the free agent rather than the leader. Let’s put that up front. Still, the book is…

Back in the day there emerged a concept called Management by Walking Around. The idea behind it was pretty sound: you can’t lead…

Very often, in discussions on leadership, someone will use the word “manage.” Invariably this leads someone to erupt, “I’m not a MANAGER. I’m…