The Olympics inspire us.  We watch the drama unfold as athletes perform for as little as 60 seconds something they have practiced for years.  They do truly amazing and courageous stuff like Shaun White and his “McTwist” on the snowboard.  Did he share his “McTwist” with other USA snowboarders?  No, he did not.  Much of [Continue]

MANIFESTO:  A public declaration of your intentions and principles. Wikipedia What is your leadership brand?  Who are you as a leader?  Can you define who you are?  What do people say about your leadership? What do you want people to say about your leadership?  How does your team define you as a leader?  What would [Continue]

Sometimes it seems parents and children don’t speak the same language.  At least that’s how Stanley Marcus felt when his father told him to issue a full refund to a woman who’d damaged a dress purchased at their store.  Stanley argued that it wasn’t the store’s fault and that the manufacturer would never refund the [Continue]

This is an article from www.leadershipnow.com.  This is one of the best retail leadership blogs on the web.  The book looks amazing and practical in its leadership approach.  As most of my readers know I am a strong advocate for emotional passionate leadership.  This philosophy also advocates a broad leadership style that develops the team [Continue]

Monday, Monday!  I think that is a song.  Woohoo!  Yes, it comes every week and it is a critically important day.  Leveraged properly it is the platform for evaluating the past week’s performance and applying those lessons to this week’s plan and sales opportunity. What should be evaluated from last week? All key metrics individually. [Continue]

“As a good example of how top management can set an agenda,” says American journalist and television correspondent Charles Osgood, “business school professors sometimes point to John F. Kennedy’s call in the early 1960′s that America should put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. “There were lots of [Continue]

There are a plethora of amazing leadership philosophies and books out there.  Many of the key ingredients are the same and one can learn something from all of them, but today, we are going to examine “The Eight Universal Laws of Leadership” by Major General William A. Cohen applying them to our world of retail. [Continue]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Carpe diem is a phrase from a Latin poem by Horace (See “Source” section below). It is popularly translated as “seize the day”. Carpe means “pick, pluck, pluck off, gather”, but Horace uses the word to mean “enjoy, make use of.” In Horace, the phrase is [Continue]