A friend of mine, Tamela Lewis, shared this quote recently: “Knowing without doing is like putting food into your oven to bake and not turning it on.” In a book called The Knowing-Doing Gap by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton, it is said that the biggest difference between companies that succeed and those that don’t […]

Ken Blanchard is among the most prolific and profound leadership authors around. I was reading one of his company blogs yesterday. It discussed the two things your boss should never have to ask from you: effort and attitude. Author Randy Conley notes that the effort you give and the attitude you have are completely in […]

Kouzes and Posner say that “Enabling Others” is another key practice of leaders. What can we do as a company to confer leadership responsibility on others? Recognize the leadership opportunities within our plants. To build pallets or treat wood, there are a lot of different units that perform tasks. If you think about it, each […]

The enemy of greatness is good. So many times, when we work to solve a problem, we stay at it just as long as it takes to eliminate the complaint. Once a problem ceases to be a problem, we move on to something else. In The Leadership Challenge, Kouzes and Posner say that leaders “Challenge […]