Leadership & Execution

I've been mulling this latest WikiLeaks controversy for a few days and there's an aspect that really troubles me. I'll stay away from the…

The New York Times of all places has a good interview with Shivan Subramaniam, CEO of FM Global, a commercial property insurance company. He discusses…

The recent Juan Williams controversy has made me think some more about the power, and importance, of diverse opinions. For those of you that haven'…

Today's Parade Sunday supplement has a good interview with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, where he has some choice comments on leadership. As…

WikiLeaks has been in the news quite a bit recently thanks to the release of some 70,000+ confidential Iraq War documents. I won't get into the po…

If we spent half as much time actually leading as we do looking for leadership lessons under every conceivable rock, perhaps we'd actually get som…

Have you ever experienced a situation where you're grappling with some new concepts and then multiple unrelated circumstances present themselves t…

I often talk about the importance of the oft-forgotten second pillar of lean manufacturing: respect for people. So many companies, usually driven by e…