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There is much written about change, change management, implementing change, and on and on. So what? For the longest time when I talked about change, listened to others talk about change, read about change or did research on change, I got more and more confused. And then I figured out predictability. From my perspective, all of life is all about change. Really, at the end of the day, what does…

This is a great and timeless story. You know, the three pigs, each of whom builds a house of different materials, straw, sticks and bricks. And, of course, the big, bad wolf blows down the straw house and the stick house, but, is not able to blow down the brick house. The third pig who built the brick house invested more time and planning into building his house and his…

I like McDonald’s hamburgers, fries and shakes. Many, many other people do, too. It is staggering to think about how many customers are served daily by this company. McDonald’s tell us on their web site that they each and every day they serve “more than 47 million customers around the world”. When I go to McDonald’s what do I get? Now, I am not talking about what food item I…

There are times when, as leaders, we believe we have done everything reasonably within our power to make sure that others know what is going on.  And yet, we routinely experience what might easily be called “epic fails”. Look at this short video from the Today Show.   Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The participants all shared full and proper communications. What happened?…

Oh, boy! We sure hate the word “discipline”! It connotes images from those movies we have all seen about soldiers in boot camp. Way too much work. It connotes images of inflexibility, and we want to be flexible and spontaneous. It connotes images for each of us where we suffered the rules and outrages of parents or older siblings. It connotes so many things to so many of us, and…