Dear Radio Shack: I read Good to Great by Jim Collins.  I admire the companies that have sustained growth over many consecutive years despite the economic upheavals. However, Circuit City should serve as a warning to the Good company Radio Shack.  You could easily go from Good to Gone as is the case for […]

  If I asked everyone in your organization to list the company’s core values how many will be able to tell me?  How many would get it right? Core Values need to live in your organization every day.  Have you tied your hiring, promotions and terminations practice with your core values? Have you put in […]

The 3D’s of Core Values: Discover, Demonstrate and Defend Most companies have not stopped to clearly define their Core Values.  Core Values are simply a handful of rules (written or not) that your company has in place and lives by regularly. The more clear and deliberate you are in your Core Values, the better  your […]

  A frog will sit in a pot of tepid water on a stove and allow the water to slowly warm up to the boiling point without jumping out. Unfortunately, many business leaders suffer the boiling frog phenomenon because they miss five early warning signs on the way to the dreaded 212 degrees. Get out […]