Category Archives: My perspective

We were very fortunate in having Esther Weinberg, new Vistage Speaker conduct her workshop “Unpopular Conversations” to my Vistage Inside Branch Manager Group in September. Members and their leadership team were fully engaged and the timing was perfect with upcoming employee performance reviews and customer contracts being renewed. Esther’s intent was assisting attendees in becomingContinue reading “Unpopular Conversations”

The world seemed to have stopped on Thursday when the world’s longest reigning monarch passed away, less than two days after having received the traditional first visit by the UK’s new Prime Minister. Queen Elizabeth II was working until the very end. She needs no memorial from me, but she was too exemplary a leader toContinue reading “Eliabeth:  Substance and Symbolism“

There’s a reason speakers and meeting facilitators repeat their most meaningful key points. We live in a time when attention spans are short and boring your audience, even if it’s only the one person you are talking to, is to be avoided at all costs.  Leaders are urged to keep it brief to avoid peopleContinue reading “The Virtues of Redundancy“