Leadership Articles

In my work with nonprofit boards I have seen several disorders which I would like to point out to you in the hope of someday finding a cure. Committee-itis—this manifests itself when a board has WAY too many committees. So many committees in fact, it may not remember what the committees were formed for in […]

Milton Hershey and Forrest Mars were different types of leaders who both built successful companies. We can learn much from them: 1.) There’s no one way to lead. Milton was a dreamer; he wanted to build a worker’s utopia. His people loved him. He ran his business with his heart. Mars was a tyrant with […]

I want to rant about something I saw in USA TODAY. It was one of those little polls they have off to the side of the stories. The question it posed to small business owners was, “Do you feel there is anything you can do to make a difference in whether your business succeeds or […]