As a business succession planner I believe family harmony is a component of the Succession Matrix. On a day-to-day basis I deal with the good, the bad and the ugly of family business.  The good gives me encouragement that family business succession

In several articles over past months, I’ve written about issues concerning your culture: how to build a high performance culture, how to stop the “weeds and bugs” from corrupting your culture and more. It’s time to go a step further by adding

When the president delivers his State of the Union address, he doesn’t wear a tank top, sandals and swig Jaeger from a bottle. Nor would you expect to see congregants shooting craps during church. And while spectators at a playoff game aren’t exp

In my workshops I help attendees build a profile of a high performance culture. In one exercise I give a list of definitions for culture-building words like earn and deserve, and compare them to definitions of culturally-destructive words like entitl

In my books and workshops I enjoy sharing leadership principles. Right principles, consistently applied, bring results. The definition of principle helps explain why this is so: “a fundamental, primary or general law or truth.” Because of the fun

In my books and workshops I enjoy sharing leadership principles. Right principles, consistently applied, bring results. The definition of principle helps explain why this is so: “a fundamental, primary or general law or truth.” Because of the fun

An entire chapter in my book, Up Your Business, addressed the dangers of entitlement within organizations and offered remedies for weeding it out. In If You Don’t Make Waves You’ll Drown, I presented ten strategies to combat the negative impact p

For decades, I’ve written extensively about discipline, accountability, focusing on what you can control, and taking personal responsibility rather than succumbing to blame. These are principles I’ve personally embraced, and applied in my life to

Success, achievement beyond what is required to “get by,” is a predicate to succession. The concept of success assumes something has been achieved beyond the ordinary; extra ordinary if you may. Business succession planning respects and acknowled