How to create high motivation and prevent burnout
When engaged in an unchallenging task, you will likely find yourself bored, unmotivated and unproductive.
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Five more job departure mistakes
The simple truth is that no matter how well you coach employees about how to resign, they rarely appreciate the legal consequences of their words.
Top seven ways an outsider has the edge
If you are in charge of strategic planning, change initiatives, restructuring or redesign efforts in your organization, it can give you an advantage to bring in someone from the outside to assist in your efforts.
Three questions to figure out what's next
I’d run a large division with 7,000 people, but this was different. It was not just about execution; it was about the ideas that had to be executed, the team that had to do it and my specific role.
Top five biggest mistakes in blended-family estate plans
A blended family is one where one or both spouses have children from previous relationships. Their estate planning needs can be quite different from those of families where all the children are from the current marriage.
Monkeys, geese, cans and talent strategy
When you locate your company in a place where people want to live such as Colorado, you’re already one step ahead of the competition for talent. But only one step.
The sweet spot: When to file for your patent
Under the current first to file rules, whoever files first on an invention is the inventor who will receive a patent even over another later-filing inventor who came up with the idea first.
Trust your gut
Entrepreneurs in startup situations don’t have a large team of people to help make decisions. They probably don’t have a well-developed, systematic approach to vet ideas. They need to trust their gut.
The vanishing mediary
In our ego-fueled world, many people want to be front and center. Leaders are told to lead from the front, even if all they do is get up on a white horse and exit stage left as soon as the battle starts.
Health, wellness and high-tech
Most people would expect technology to play a large role in the pharmacy and health and wellness industries.
Leaders are climbing the consciousness mountain
Many business leaders are becoming more intentionally conscious, and the result is businesses that do more for their customers and communities while growing and thriving.
Cultivating next-gen rock stars
As a business leader who is constantly searching for—and competing to attract–the best talent in the Denver area, I can honestly say I am committed and have a vested interest in grooming talent in our great city.
Passion is the fuel of greatness
In my consulting, I have found one of the distinguishing traits of passionate, high-performing organizations is an obsessive focus by the people in it on both the what and the how of their business. The what in business is the one thing for which the business is known. What product or service diff...
Google leads the way – again
When you have trained your mind so that you can consciously choose to have mindful moments (this can be accomplished fairly quickly with the right training), you create expanded possibilities and can make higher conscious choices and decisions from these possibilities. When you are being mindful,...
Be a mindset master
If business leaders put as much emphasis on preparing their minds for success as world-class athletes do, they would likely be much more relaxed, confident and extraordinary! Please consider for a moment: What if you followed Peyton Manning’s example of how to prepare for success? How might things...
Act with inspiring courage
Mastering your fears begins with having the courage to fail, which is the opposite of being afraid to fail. If not managed and controlled, being afraid to fail blocks success.
Best of ColoradoBiz: Too young to retire, too old to rehire?
There is a new catch-phrase that I'm hearing out on the "street." It is "Too young to retire, too old to rehire." It is complete and absolute hooey! Here are some things you can do if you're a mature executive to assure that you will be rehired much more rapidly.
John Elway’s revisionist history
Many Denverites have told me with a straight face that Elway is the greatest QB of all time. And you think Tim Tebow's exploits have been exaggerated? May I speak freely?
