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“All or nothing: When do you take the big risk?” Sometimes you just have to plunge ahead.
From our distant African origins to the igloo-dwelling Greenland Inuit, humankind has always extended our reach into whatever new and unexplored land lay at our domestic frontiers. We have not shied away from the most extreme of environments. Rather, we have...
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The Motivating Power of Purpose: What Businesses can Learn from the early Antarctic Explorers
The hot new topic in the world of business today is this: Executives and businesses around the world are embracing the idea that having a definable purpose for their enterprise is critical to success in 2018 and 2019. That purpose needs to go beyond increasing...
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“Will the Results be Worth the Effort?”
Every accomplishment of every kind, from insignificant to monumental and the whole range between, starts with an idea and then proceeds through plan and execution to accomplishment. Simple enough in concept, especially for the thousands of minor accomplishments that...
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Was Amundsen like Alexander Hamilton? “Young, scrappy and hungry. And not throwing away his shot”
Both David Hirzel and I saw the musical Hamilton recently. We each saw the play in our local area -- David in San Francisco and myself in London. Like everyone who has seen the show, we each came away stunned by the originality of it -- the music, the staging etc --...
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As Good as Your Word: Promises made to be kept
Promises and commitments are the outward signs of mutual trust between parties, a shared understanding, and a bargain to be upheld at each end. A contract, if you will, whether written and signed, or verbal and committed over a handshake, to terms large and detailed...
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“Can You Do It?”
It’s unlikely that any of us will find ourselves in Tom Crean’s situation when, in the closing days of the Antarctic autumn of 1912, at the end of a 1300-mile trek (almost halfway across Antarctica and back), he set out to go another 35 to save his companions. We no...
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“Who’s on your team? More than you thought.”
Who’s on your team? The question springs from a generality, an easily understood concept that in corporations, as in any organization made up of leaders and followers, the combined strength of the team in its members and its output is fundamental to the success of the...
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Who’s in Charge? The Fundamentals of Leadership
The concept of “leadership” has a lot of currency these days, addressed in academic disciplines and institutes, and in countless corporate trainings and seminars. Regardless of the enterprise, there has to be some place in any management hierarchy that is...
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