You Started A Business – Now What?

You Started A Business – Now What?

Why do so many businesses fail in the first two years? Why do so many firms make it through the “survival” stage only to stall around the fourth or fifth year? One of the biggest reasons is they start with too little cash. As the old saying goes: it takes...
Be Present

Be Present

In the Go Beyond school of Upside Down Leadership we teach six things that a leader must BE: a person of character, authentic, vulnerable, accepting, present and useful. The topic for today is being present. I recently suggested to the CEO of a rapidly growing company...
Let Them See You Walk Through Fire

Let Them See You Walk Through Fire

Have you ever heard the saying, “Never let them see you sweat?” That slogan became part of American culture in 1984 through a TV commercial for an antiperspirant. It quickly entered the public lexicon, invoking images of a supremely confident professional,...
Love and Respect

Love and Respect

Leadership is a relationship between the people of an organization and their leader. Higher level leadership is a dynamic feedback loop fueled by love and respect, the foundation of all good relationships. Love in this sense is not soft sentimentalism, romantic...