When asked, most peo­ple will reply to that ques­tion with “I work for XYZ Cor­po­ra­tion.” In real­ity you work for a per­son, a boss. CNN Money reg­u­larly pub­lishes the list of the best com­pa­nies to work for in the coun­try such as Zap­pos, REI, Google, and Weg­mans Food Mar­kets. Okay, can you assume that you are auto­mat­i­cally going to be sat­is­fied and ful­filled with your work–that the peo­ple around you and your boss will sup­port who you are? What if…

How can one per­son con­quer so much ter­ri­tory in a life time to actu­ally change the face of the world? What char­ac­ter­is­tics and cir­cum­stances cre­ated this phe­nom­ena? As  con­sul­tants, we are brought into orga­ni­za­tions to help the CEO’s reshape the cul­ture, the orga­ni­za­tion and other aspects. In read­ing Weatherford’s Ghengis Khan, I was con­stantly aston­ished  and amazed by some of his lead­er­ship char­ac­ter­is­tics. We are so quick to…

I get up and open my email and check out the new arti­cles in Fast Com­pany before read­ing the 300 other ones that will need my com­plete atten­tion Today there was one on find­ing the “Sweet spot” at work. link here.

It is the small things that dif­fer­en­ti­ate good from great orga­ni­za­tions and com­pa­nies. How do you man­age the small pieces that make the dif­fer­ence? Link here.

What do com­pa­nies need to do to keep tal­ent from leav­ing?? Link here.