Quote of the Week: Using All Gears?

As Bike Week comes to a close, this week’s Leadership Quote of the Week is about bikes and gears. Are you using all of your “gears”? How about the people on your team? Are you/they using them at the right times? Are the shifts smooth?

If not, you and/or your team are not operating at peak performance.

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10 dreams doomed to fail

Whether called a dream, a vision, a goal or whatever… here are 10 that are doomed to fail.

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Quote of the Week for MLK Day

From our Quote of the Week for January 2:  Lead with intention. From our Quote of the Week for January 9:  As a leader, you rarely have certainty but you…

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10 Ways to Punch This Economy in the Nose

It’s about time for somebody to punch this economy in the nose! That’s our Quote of the Week which was spotted in the Southwest Air terminal in the Salt Lake City Airport. Besides doing what Southwest Air intended – what can we do to punch this economy in the nose? Here are 10 suggestions.

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Special Feature: Inspired by Eve Carson

Eve Carson was President of her high school in Athens, Georgia. She was valedictorian of her class.

She went to UNC Chapel Hill as a Morehead Scholar, was Phi Beta Kappa and selected as a North Carolina Fellow. She spent her summers studying and volunteering in Wyoming, Ecuador and Egypt. She was President of the Student Body.

She always had time for people. Loved to have dance parties. Looked for the good in everything and everyone. Fun, fun loving and loved by so many.

With all of these (plus many more) activities, she still had a 3.9 GPA and was scheduled to graduate in May 2008 with highest distinction in biology and political science.

Two months prior to graduation, she was gunned down in what police called a random act of violence.

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Quote of the Week: Mess in the Middle

This week marks the middle of the calendar year. And so our featured quote is one I heard from Rosabeth Moss Canter about 25 years ago. About the mess in the middle.

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