There are never coincidences, but there certainly are synchronized events that validate an environment–for the good and bad. Take the news about Bloomberg LP and the IRS. Although the IRS is a non-partisan government agency, large segments of the population have never really trusted it. ...

At a time when great companies like Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, and IBM (among others) are working through serious issues, vigorous efforts to eliminate behaviors that institutionalize mediocrity must be a top priority. I have found that a key to understanding and then, changing, a culture is carefully listening to how employees speak. Business-speak tends to be a very accurate reflection of...

If Corporate America was covered like sports, then annual budget sessions would get the same kind of around the clock coverage this (past) weekend’s NFL Draft did. Congratulations to Roger Goodell and the NFL for turning its annual player draft into a mini-version of the Super Bowl as a significant revenue generator and attracting enormous...

Original articles was featured in Access to Capital (D&B Credibility Corp.©) - April 24, 2013: If you run a business looking for capital you will find investors are more active and willing, as they have more money to put to work than had been the case in the past few years. While deals are getting done, it is a more deliberative ...