Is email making us lazy, unprofessional and discourteous, instead of efficient? Many of us think, “hey, it’s email, so I don’t need to be formal. I don’t need paragraphs or extra spacing. Don’t need a salutation or a proper closing. I don’t need punctuation – it’s just email and I’m in a rush. Isn’t that the beauty…

Our cat Snickers is a leader. She is an outdoor cat. When she wants to come in, she sits by our sliding glass door. If we don’t jump up immediately, she climbs up the screen door and then jumps off.  She’s ruined two screen doors in the past eight years. We just installed another new…

Financial management is about directing and controlling assets. Leadership and coaching are about influencing, encouraging, and offering challenging choices that help people gain knowledge and develop skills. To generate ROI, we can “manage” our financial assets, but we must “lead” our people assets. If leaders attempt to direct people instead of lead people, unintended consequences…