(This is the first in a weekly series to support leaders and organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Share this with your leadership team or decision-making group to shape the path to better decisions.) Best wishes,  MDB) A Sound Decision-making Process Is a ‘Life Preserver’ This pandemic and the aftermath will likely present a […]

The World Ahead   In 2007, I had a unique opportunity to sit in a small group for two days and observe one of the world’s leading futurists paint a picture of the year 2025. We are more than halfway there and I see the wisdom of his vision of the trends and emerging realities of our […]

Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things. Peter Drucker, Leading authority on organizations Every organization’s leadership team has the continuing opportunity and challenge to: organize the business, nonprofit, or agency for learning, facilitate the aligned contributions of employees and volunteers, and be a beacon of conviction, clarity, and confidence that guides […]

An organization that never had a non-white employee was sued for racial discrimination and ordered to hire three African-American men who had been rejected as applicants. Although now employed with a fair salary, the collective hostility of the existing employees toward the three men resulted in the silent treatment to shun them. Except for  minimal […]