Let’s rewind to 1913. After being widowed, my great-grandmother Ella Sindorf took over Sindorf’s “Staples and Fancy Groceries” on Hadley Street in Milwaukee, WI. A businesswoman by necessity, not by design, she ran the show. Eventually, her son – my
The Leadership Retreat: Are Off-Sites On Point…or Not?
Once a year – sometimes twice, if the budget is healthy – senior leaders everywhere stuff their laptops, a few branded fleece vests, and a stack of lofty intentions into roller bags and head for venues with uplifting names like
It’s Not a Meeting, It’s a Huddle! (and we still hate it)
Why does everyone hate work meetings? We take the hatred and meeting fatigue for granted, don’t we? It’s the basis of half the workplace memes on Instagram and three-quarters of the jokes in any decent office sitcom. The mere utterance
How Bad Business Processes Break Good People
We’ve all seen it. A well-intentioned, talented, motivated employee slowly ground down by an inflexible process that was last updated during the Bush administration. (The first one.) They’re not underperforming. They’re trying to navigate an obstacle course built out of
