Five Tenets of Building a Strong Team Culture

By focusing on an environment that emphasizes love, communication, talent, service orientation, and discipline, leaders will be paving a solid foundation for organizational success. With these key components in place, any team or organization can be well on its way to cultural greatness.

Where to focus? Try the “Hedgehog Principle”.

Whether you find yourself among the scores of tech workers thinking through your transition, or you’re an executive making difficult choices about your operations, The Hedgehog Principle represent a simple, yet insightful filter to help you make better decisions around where to focus your most valuable resource: time. 

A leadership lesson from my 18 year-old son…

I’m the proud father of four sons. Miles is my oldest still in the house, a senior who outperforms academically, while also serving as the captain of the high school wrestling team at 160 lbs.  He has a certain quiet confidence about him.  His presence is generally calm, yet attentive – taking in his surroundings […]

Book Review: “The No Asshole Rule”

In “The No Asshole Rule,” author Robert I. Sutton tackles the often overlooked but significant issue of incivility in the workplace. Sutton, a professor of management science at Stanford University, defines an “asshole” as someone who is rude, disrespectful, or aggressive towards others. These individuals can have a detrimental effect on a workplace, creating a […]

Does your organization or team need rewiring?

The first time I found myself thinking about the actual physiology of the brain as it relates to leadership was the seminal TED Talk by Simon Sinek, The Golden Circles. In a passing comment, Sinek points out that the brain is organized in a very specific way which impacts the way we process information vs. […]

The Agile Transformation: It ain’t easy…

What is agile? “Agile” is a software development approach that prioritizes flexibility, collaboration, and continuous delivery and testing. Unfortunately, over the past several years, Agile has become the panacea for typical project delivery challenges and has sought to replace the more traditional Waterfall method that is found in nearly every other sphere of Project Management. […]

Remembering September 11th, 2001

Originally published on September 11, 2006 As you know, today is a day of remembrance for us…our Pearl Harbor…a day as a country, we lost an unspeakable number of people in a short sweep of the hour hand. It is a particularly meaningful day for me. I was in NYC, working just four short blocks […]

Book Review: “Five Dysfunctions of a Team”

Perhaps one of the most influential books of our time, Patrick Lencioni leverages an innovative writing (at least for business books) style (at least for business books) which leverages the power of parable to explore a complex topic. In his book, “Five Dysfunctions of a Team” Lencioni uses a model based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of […]

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