by David Barrett | Apr 17, 2019 | Blog, Everyone
One of my Linkedin contacts, Michelle Krupa, posted an article from the web site Makeit.com, a portal from CNBC. The headline read: “Mark Cuban: ‘One of the most underrated skills in business right now is being nice.’” Thank you, Michelle. Thank you, Mark. You...
by David Barrett | Apr 3, 2019 | Blog, Strategy Execution
“Culture is the often-overlooked foundation of an organization. It determines how the group retains talent, how it develops and releases new products and whether it meets targets. It affects how happy and satisfied employees are at work.” 7 Elements of Strategy...
by David Barrett | Mar 27, 2019 | Blog, Strategy Execution
Five Key Elements to Building a Strong Strategic Plan Company X gets it now! They realize how important it is to focus on the execution of the plan as much as it did on the creation of the plan. In fact, they hired a well-respected team to come in to help them...
by David Barrett | Mar 20, 2019 | Blog, Leadership
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of disengagement to each one who is striking at the root.” Today I want to highlight the comment of one of my readers after the post “Working with Disengaged Teams”. Peter Hadas is a Change Management consultant...
by David Barrett | Mar 13, 2019 | Blog, Strategy Execution
I am a serial entrepreneur and a dreamer. I come up with new ideas all the time, which comes with good news and bad news. The good news is that some of these ideas, well under 50% admittedly, are good ones: ideas that could serve my community well, or...
by David Barrett | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog, Leadership
Originally posted August, 2015 I was recently listening to a group of teenagers talk about their summer jobs and most of the talk was a rant about the leadership style that one of them was dealing with. I heard the words, “They don’t set a good example” numerous times...
