When Jim Yong Kim was appointed President World Bank some months ago quite a few people where aghast. After all, Kim is a doctor, not a banker. Previously Kim led the World Health Organization and was President of Dartmouth College, hardly the background many expected for the leader of...

A number of people commented (not as comments on the blog although you are welcome to actually post those emails) that my last post was Speak Memorably while the one before that was Management Success: Ask...and Listen. I must admit that this was just a random event unless it was...

I seem to wind up with quite a few people people talking to me. Politicians seeking my vote, executives sharing their thoughts, con men trying to sell me something, famous people discussing their success, and regular people doing presentations on no end of topics for often obscure reasons. And then there...

Management books are filled with information about managing people. Experts of all types are available to help you learn how to improve your management skills. Seminars abound on the techniques for becoming a better boss. You can spend a lot of time and a small fortune on such things. And...

If you are anyone who manages others, works with others, talks to others, or just happens to run into other people, you've noticed that they have different beliefs that guide them. The great difficulty most people have is understanding what this means and how it guides their thoughts and...

This arrives the morning of Election Day in the USA. It has been a depressing experience watching an unending stream of misstatements, pandering, factual inaccuracies, billionaires hoping to buy the election, officials working to disenfranchise voters, hate filled verbiage, and outright lies...often continuing to be repeated even after the...

This blog comes to you from Birchrunville, a place in the direct line of Hurricane Sandy. As I write this, it's been raining for hours and the winds are picking up. They say twelve hours from now it will hit with torrential downpour, wind of 30 or 40 miles...

I seem to have had a brain seizure a few days ago. In addition to this blog on various issues about management I write a personal blog that more or less is a travelogue of both my actual travels and the odd things that wander through my brain. Imagine...