Leadership Perception and Self-Deception
PerceptionFew people would argue that confidence is a necessary leadership competency. When does confidence go too far and start to limit, or even worse damage good leadership and decision making skills? Leaders are sometimes labeled as having narcissistic personality traits; traits that could be doing more damage to organization growth and stability than they realize. Most leaders believe that

Effort or Results?
Leadership certainly has its challenges. How we lead and perhaps more importantly how we measure results is critically important to organizations that wish to stay competitive and be successful. Often managers discuss with me the effort that they or their employee teams put in on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. I listen with empathy as employees discuss long hours, missed family, and lack of

Right Sizing - Managing Human Capital
Are you making the correct choices as it relates to human capital? Many organizations are being faced with challenging human resource decisions, in part because of weak economic conditions here in the United States. Unfortunately many business owners and managers find themselves aggressively engaged in “right-sizing,” a term made popular during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Often this term