In 1790, upon his death, Benjamin Franklin was a very rich man. He was the most famous person in the world, even more famous than George Washington, who had just finished his first year as President of the United States. In his will, Franklin made a strange bequest. He left one thousand pounds ($125,000

  Kyle manages a group of estimators for a regional construction company. His team is responsible for estimating building projects such as large hospitals, sports stadiums, and multi-use downtown developments. His dozen or so team members are busy, busy, busy. They can also be sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. When they miss something, the company has to

Introduction: Walking into my first all-day Strategic Planning session as the coach of a vital county non-profit, I admit I was a little nervous. Soon, learning that one of the participants had marked this day in her calendar as “Strategic Planning Misery” instead of “Strategic Planning Meeting” did not calm my nerves. I had a

  Where should we focus our attention – on shoring up our weaknesses or on improving in areas where we are already strong?  One of my favorite stories about the tension between focusing on strengths versus addressing weaknesses comes from the world of professional basketball.  Shaquille O’Neal was a dominant big man in the NBA

  I learned to ride a bicycle when I was four or five years old.  Like most people, rode a bike a lot as a kid, and then I occasionally rode through my early teenage years until learning to drive a car.  Until last month, I don’t think I’d ridden a bicycle for maybe 30+