Author: pallas

The first step to creating a more effective organization is determining how to deploy your resources. There are no exceptions. Consider the following: A restaurant has 50 menu items with...

Planning and implementing are different disciplines; good employers are not good listeners 24/7; a business year consists of three months of strategic planning and nine months of disciplined execution. Decide...

Your responses to my request in last month’s blog for input on my book are astounding. First of all, there were a lot of them, over 100 to be exact....

In pondering what lessons I’ve learned in 2013, it became clear to me –once again– that solutions to complex problems are frequently simple. Although I have discovered this many times...

Nothing good happens in our lives or our business until we see things as they are and decide to change. [more] A few weeks ago, I saw a presentation from...

If you don't stop frequently to check where you've been and where you're going, you won't get to the place you set out for. [more] Over the last month or...

All great businesses and organizations are built on three legs which must be equally balanced 1. decision rights, 2. incentives and 3. measurements. [more] In MBA school a few years...

Seeing poverty first-hand changes one’s point of view. [more] Editor's Note: I was pleasantly surprised by the response to my writing about our trip to Kenya last month. So, I...

It was 1988 and I was out of a job. And I was running out of time to provide for my young family of five. When I told people I’m...

As I was starting my business, I read a small Ken Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale book titled The Power of Ethical Management . The lesson I remember most from...