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QWANtify Grows Through Intention and Insight

I often hear business leaders explaining how they feel caught between the preverbal rock and a hard place.  I not only understand, but feel their pain, as I am helping organizations with this dilemma, and have my own consulting firms to manage.  As our colleagues have said, these are interesting times.

A month ago, we turned the calendar page on a new year. By now, we have all read and considered countless suggestions on how best to resolve to change our lives, our outlooks and our waistlines.

Today let’s take a hard look at how we can change our businesses in one simple way: avoid the mistake we made last year and in every year before that: procrastination. Specifically, if all owners know that someday they’ll leave their companies, why then do they do nothing to plan for that day?

All to often, we consultants try to create our own model for various aspects of leadership or management.  Sometimes, this works out well as we take a concept to a new level, or establish a contemporary spin on something that has a timeless quality.  Today I’d like to share my review of David Gergen’s latest book, Eyewitenesss to Power:  The Essence of Leadership.

I found David’s insights to be indepth, fair, objective and incredibily insightful.  His review was not only a collection of leadership ideas and concepts, but a targeted review of the leadership qualities of several of our most recent presidents - Nixon to Clinton.  Given his first hand experience within the white house staff’s, along with his personal and professional friendships with many of his colleagues.