I live in Portland, Oregon, home of the National Basketball Association’s Portland Trailblazers. There remains a sense of deep regret among our sports fans that their 2007 number one overall draft pick Greg Oden never made a significant contribution to… Read More ›
Michelle Fay Cortez contributed an important Management & Leadership tip in the December 7, 2009 edition of “BusinessWeek” (P. 057). Entitled “A Little Anger Is a Good Thing”, Ms. Cortez sites a study that appeared in the Journal of Epidemiology… Read More ›
Recently my wife and I finished watching the HBO special “John Adams”. Throughout the series two things struck a powerful cord in me. First, how lucky we were as Americans that with no long, indigenous national history or established political… Read More ›
I am often asked what I believe is a manager’s worst enemy on the job. My favorite answers is “AN UNTESTED ASSUMPTION”. And is it ever easy to assume them and act on them to our detriment. A lot has… Read More ›
Insights on Managing and Leading 