In today’s competitive business landscape, it’s not enough to focus on strategy alone. Corporate culture—those underlying behaviors, attitudes, and values that guide how a company operates—plays an equally vital role in determining long-term success.

Family and non-family businesses alike have much to gain by expanding their focus on developing a culture that is aligned with their mission. Just ask these folks what it’s meant to them.

Every year we make commitments both personally and professionally. We commit to developing our strategic plan, establishing a board of advisors or some other important issue to our family business. Consider this countdown to success in 2022 and get to work!

What Candidate Ghosting says about the direction of today’s broken hiring process. Three steps to reduce Candidate Ghosting and watching your hiring efforts go up in smoke.

Employee engagement begs for questioning the status quo.  Learn why here.

Get over it! Your generation is not as different as you believe.  You have more in common with the one before and after you than you think.  Tools are different, values often shared.

Want better financial results? Think culture! As a leader, identify the behaviors, (CLUE: there are between 25 and 40 of them) that are critical to the success of your company. Define them, create rituals around them and develop them into habits. Recruit them and fire those who don’t embrace them!

Every year we make commitments both personally and professionally. We commit to developing our strategic plan, establishing a board of advisors or some other important issue to our family business. Consider this countdown to success in 2019 and get to work!

So, Mr. CEO, you thought you were the most important person in the company! Think again. Then do all you can to support the selling function. Strategic thinkers know-how and you can too. Learn what to do now.

The steps taken in making better decisions is a process.  In this final installment of a series learn about tradeoffs leading up to a final choice and how to best approach that departure point with confidence.

Choices have consequences. It’s not enough to just think about the alternatives we might decide between. Learn how to improve your probability of choosing wisely.

It is possible to prevent sexual harassment. It requires a different approach to creating the cultures we need in the workplace and the recognition of how limited our corporate value statements are in guiding behaviors.

As she approached a fork in the road,  Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat tells Alice that where she ends up depends on which of two paths she takes. Wouldn’t Alice have been better served with more choices…?

It has never been more important to be disciplined in our approach to decision-making than it is today. The expanse of choices available increase the risk of choosing poorly without a process. In this series learn how to make smarter choices and WIN!

Writing coaches tell writers when they’re blocked “just start”. Approaching the process of decision making, like so many things, is all about that first step. The first step is not always the same. In this installment, we begin by managing risk with the right first step for making better decisions.

According to Harvard Business Review, over 80% of mergers and acquisitions will fail to generate the results all parties are clamoring for.  Why? Learn what essential considerations are missing from the process and how you can avoid the misery.

There are few things more important than the decisions we make. Big strategic ones, small operational ones, important family business-related ones, and less significant ones. Doesn’t it make sense then, that we approach decisions with thoughtfulness? Learn this disciplined approach to decision-making then adopt is as your own.

According to KPMG up to 83% of mergers fail. Much of that failure can be traced to the challenges of integrating disparate cultures. Look before you leap and include a cultural assessment in your due diligence process.