"If you are planning for a year, sow rice. If you are planning for a decade plant trees. If you are planning for a lifetime, educate people." Chinese Proverb Developing leaders and managers takes time. There is no fast track, there are "no two ways around it", it just takes…

  "That which is rewarded gets repeated." It is a proven science if you give positive feedback you will get more of the attribute you rewarded. I have recently seen a slew of leadership articles and quotes focused on how to be a better leader, what type of leader keeps…

"It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking,…

“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.” Martin Luther King, Jr. The hardest thing to do in business (and personally) is to…

“Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” -- Denis Waitley   A couple posts ago, I talked about the Trap of Prosperity. Essentially, it is a period of stagnancy that sometimes comes along with…