Lead Change Group

Nothing puts air in our sails like a noble purpose. But many of us work for businesses where our focus is to simply outperform last quarter. If you can’t manage your purpose, you can still inspire your co-workers. When you bring the best of who you are to the job or the project or the [...]

Finding the Soul of Big Business: One Company’s Ego Elimination Strategy by Paula Marshall I’ve lived in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area for almost 12 years. One organization that I’ve known about, without really knowing is Bama Companies, Inc., a 73 year old privately-held food services company. Bama is best known as a global pie and [...]

Dr. Eli Sopow will be the presenter on the November Lead Change Conference call.  The call is scheduled for November 16th at 5:00 PM Eastern. Systems theory illustrates how one small change can make a huge difference by using the metaphor of a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil. Ultimately that flap of a wing [...]

I just disabled Windows Update for some of my “important” security updates.  It’s a lengthy story; but the whole ordeal drove home some important leadership lessons. Let’s discuss the lesson first and provide details for the interested later. Can you recall ever feeling helpless? There’s nothing more frustrating than knowing that you can’t accomplish what [...]

Do you know the strengths of your teammates? By strengths, I mean the activities that your teammates are energized by and that they are good at. In the book Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath, he defined a strength as: Talent X Investment = Strength Talent is defined as “a natural way of thinking, feeling [...]

I read a very perceptive post on Harvard Business Review’s blog by Tammy Erickson called How the Recession Is Changing Talent Management. You need to read the article because she presents a compelling case for how the actions of businesses contribute to the prevailing attitude of free-agency in managerial and professional workers. She claims that [...]

A follower on Twitter recently asked me to clarify my bio. Since my bio says I’m interested in “applying Christian principles in business,” he wanted to know what biblical principles I applied in business. In effect, he was asking what I value. I couldn’t get it in 140 characters. In fact, I’m still working on [...]