The Business Owner’s Bill of Rights
When Caring Creates Vulnerability The personal rights of a business owner are rarely discussed. Business owners with high-achieving personality styles have something in common. They are very responsible and they care a lot. Sometimes the caring combined with the...
Dealing with a Toxic Board Member
Are you dealing with a difficult or toxic board member? It’s the person who expects his opinion and vast experience to outweigh everyone else’s voice. Or maybe the one who seems bent on creating drama and cannot be trusted to be straightforward in
Co-Founder Relationships – How to Win
He is the big picture thinker, with grand ideas, fantastic people skills, and the focus of a squirrel. She is detail-oriented, precise, and has an optimized system for…everything. She complains that she is tired of planning
How to Cope and Lead Your Team Through the Sudden Death of a Colleague
Navigating the Sudden Death of a Colleague I returned the call, expecting that the team needed me to help with an internal dilemma of some type. Instead, I learned that my client had died. There are no norms or traditions to handle the sudden death of a colleague, a...
Coping with Incompetence – Using Frustration to Fuel Your Performance
I remember a particularly frustrating brush with incompetence in my PhD program. The assignment started out as just another step in compiling