I was sitting in church recently when our pastor asked several basic questions, “What is a passion for you?” and “Where did it start?”  My mind immediately raced back in time to…

We live in an age of mind-boggling technology.  Appliances cook our food in a matter of seconds.  We have transportation that can take us across town in 20 minutes and across the…

“Most CEOs know they have to divide their attention among short-, medium-, and long-term perspectives, but the adaptable CEOs spent significantly more of their time—as much as 50%—thinking about the long term.”[i]…

According to Peter Drucker, effective executives get the right things done.  Is there a secret ingredient to being an effective executive?  Dr. Drucker found little correlation between an executive’s effectiveness and her…

“If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed, but skill will bring success” ~ Ecclesiastes 10:10 (New King James Version) The DeVoe School of Business has undertaken…

Examples of poor leadership abound in every industry, government, and community. Unfortunately, toxic leaders have devastating effects on an organization and with every individual they interact. [i]  Often, people become enchanted with…

Many of us “lead up” in our companies without even knowing it.  Leading up is known as “the act of working with people above you…to help them and you get a better…

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think.  That is very uncommon in American business.  I read and think…”   ~ Warren Buffett[i] One…

Dr. Jim Underwood contends that Corporate IQ provides a “concrete, quantifiable method to rank companies within industries” (p. vii).[i]  Corporate IQ “measures the degree to which a firm is prepared to operate within and…

“Always check small things.”                                                                           ~ General Colin Powell, My American Journey, 2003 A few years after my wife and I bought our first small business, we decided to offer our General…