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In 2000, Robert Nardelli was hired to run Home Depot. By 2006 he had nearly doubled sales, cut costs, improved process, increased efficiency and doubled profits. In 2007, the board of directors released Nardelli. Why? He focused on the wrong question. According to Ric Merrifield in his book Rethink, Nardelli

In 2004, Patrick Lencioni authored a book titled Death by Meeting. The title alone summed up how many people felt about meetings. Not surprisingly, studies have shown that the average professional spends 25% of their time in meetings and half that time is wasted. That’s 250 hours a year! Most

By Lou Quinto, Executive Coach and Speaker When my youngest daughter was in kindergarten, she was learning her numbers from 1-100. Her teacher sent home a newsletter with some games we could play with her at home that would help her in this learning quest. One of the games she

If you’re looking for signs of a pending Zombie Apocalypse, look no further than your nearest emergency room. Go to an ER at 2:00 a.m. and you will see what looks like a callout for zombie extras. Everywhere you turn you see bleary-eyed souls stumbling around a sea of people,