In today’s information-rich and time-poor world, we must build excellence in real time as we juggle competing demands, virtual teams, fluid priorities and high-velocity change. Excellence is not ...

The notion of corporate values has been around for quite some time. For many organizations, they are words on a wall, a page in the annual report or a graphic on a careers site. It’s not hard to see, ...

Sylvia Acevedo, CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA, grew up living on a dirt road in New Mexico, the daughter of immigrant parents who survived paycheck to paycheck. Cisco’s former CEO, John Chambers, ...

There are a few defining moments in a relationship but, before any of those, you have to actually define the relationship — that big conversation that asks where you two are going, what you want, and ...

The higher education lore is that faculty members cannot agree on anything. Like other myths, this accepted folk wisdom is far from the truth. Indeed, over the course of our careers, we have ...

Albert Einstein once said, “If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it.” While that may sound extreme, it does highlight the ...

It's a common belief that one must be alone or single to truly understand oneself. While there's some truth to this, the process of defining oneself is deeply intertwined with family dynamics.