Category Archives: Management

Where Responsibility is Taken and Accountability Begins

“The most important words in any meeting are not in the first sentence, they are in the last sentence.”
In any serious meeting, the opening statements are all about posturing - if it is serious enough, the participants have rehearsed what they’re going to say and prepped with their teams. They stake out positions and begin […]

Best Practices and a Culture of Success

Most jobs can be done by anyone with 10 fingers and 10 toes, provided they know what to count.
Simplistic, I know. At least, on the surface it may seem simplistic. But the key to this statement is the last six words: “…provided they know what to count.”
My current job has many facets, some obvious, some […]

Crisis Management

People good at crisis management got that way for a reason.
Think about that statement for a moment.
I’ve met a number of people that come through big when the chips are down. I’ve also seen a lot of those same people unable to manage an operation on a day-to-day basis. Crisis is where they operate best, […]

99 Dead Monkeys

I can give a Master Carpenter a hammer and he will frame a house in a week. But if I give nail guns to 100 monkeys, all I will get at the end of the week is 99 dead monkeys.

Yes, the first post on Profound Business is titled 99 Dead Monkeys.
They say you have to […]