Management & Leadership Insights for Today's Corporations and Executives

This week, we’ve introduced the term “autopilot” in various social media posts. Some things are good to have on autopilot: Monthly...

Matt Beckmann discusses why leaders and business owners must work to eliminate reductionist thinking, and how they can create better decisio

“An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan.” - Warren Buffett For many people “Plan” is a word that occupies space among...

Amazon's Jeff Bezos Makes Time to “Putter” and You Should Too. Today, I look at how the world’s richest man schedules his day, and why...

Perfection is an elusive thing. A perfect score on a test might be a typical example of how we think of "perfection". But tests are,...

Today, I share some Business & Leadership Lessons from The Book of the Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi. This book, though roughly 400...

Part 2 – The Legend of Surfer Boy In Part 1, I discussed how I found success as a campaign manager with ZERO prior political experience....

Challenges are inescapable. Fortunately, embracing certain fixes will significantly enhance your company's resiliency.

Matt Beckmann concludes this week's topic with advice on how to avoid the common traps of Ego, and Poor Communication by new managers.

Part 2 in our series of Common Challenges for New Managers covers Handling Accountability, and Establishing Managerial Credibility.

What are some common challenges for new managers? We'll be exploring that topic this week!

Part 3 of how heuristics and cognitive bias can impact strategy, and how you can mitigate those effects.

Part 2 - Examining how we can train ourselves to minimize the effects of heuristics and cognitive biases to improve commercial outcomes.

Part 1: An introduction into heuristics and cognitive biases, and how they can impact business and corporate strategy.

Our final entry in the 4-Part Leadership Series: Taking the leap into entrepreneurship.

Our final entry in the "11 Common Challenges Facing Startups & Small Businesses".

Part 5 in our "11 Challenges for Startups & Small Businesses" series.

Part 4 in Matt Beckmann's analysis of the common challenges for startups and small business.

Part 3 of our Common Business Challenges covers Finding the Right People, and your Organizational Architecture.

Part 2 in our series examining the 11 common challenges faced by startups and small businesses.

Matt Beckmann discusses common challenges for startups and small business, part 1.

The Thursday Tactic examines a strategy option for personal and professional development goals.

Episode 3 in our Leadership Series. Building on the lessons from earlier episodes and providing new insights.

Examining the importance of self-care in order to reach optimal performance.