Leadership

“Globalization is here to stay. Many of us who have dealt with offshore partners have lived through many challenging leadership situations and have many stories to share. In one of my consulting engagements a client executive challenged me to explain cultural differences between East and West by simplifying it into one sentence. While it is a daunting task to compress all of the diversity in thinking, actions and approaches of people into one sentence, the first thing that came to mind was how each culture defines individuality. In the West, individuality is literally about an individual, whereas in the East, individuality is identified with a group.

“Grace” is one of my favorite words. On Sundays I watch a little girl named Grace as she walks up the aisle at church, personifying her name. And Grace is the middle name of a beloved granddaughter. Lovely word, I think – and one with many meanings. I tend to like these: inherent excellence; easy elegance of manners, motion or action; perfection of form or the disposition to benefit or serve another.

Yvonne is a worrier, especially now that she is reporting to a new manager.

Five years ago, Catherine Jacobson, Peggy Troy and Susan Edwards all held high-ranking positions in health care systems outside the state of Wisconsin.

Entrepreneurship is a risky field because not everyone makes it. However, it is possible to save a struggling business, whether brand new or established.

I facilitated a TEC mediation recently between my TEC CEO member "Frank" and his controller "Jim" (names changed to protect me!). They were very frustrated with each other.

Strong leadership is more than a competitive advantage. It separates world-class companies from the rest.

Early in a new year many of us want to re-organize our lives, especially our work lives.

In the 1980s, while I was a senior vice president at JH Collectibles, we were so focused on producing fashion sportswear for the misses market we missed the emerging “women's” size market.