Thank you. Not just for reading this but for being my partner in this journey. I need you for that, and here’s what I mean.

We all manage ourselves, our companies, and our teams by setting goals; ideally, with goals that require a stretch but are achievable. Perfection - if it indeed exists - is an ever-evolving ideal and therefore does not make a realistic goal.

Regardless of whether you work in a creative agency, architectural firm, sales enterprise, corporate environment, or government organization, we all hold fixed points of view regarding what we can and cannot do and say. However, it is worth considering how much of this is a fixed reality and how much of it is shaped by our own thinking.

A strange thing has happened.

While composing my own newsletter, This Is Not What I Expected, the other day – a publication theoretically unrelated to Momentum Consulting – I realized I was unconsciously writing about authenticity in a very Momentum-y way.

We get up in the morning, clean up for work (at least pre-COVID), down some coffee, brace ourselves, and head out the door. It has become so routine we do not notice. In some ways, it started back in grade school… walking out the door with a mental “showtime!”. We slapped our game faces on and headed to school.

If you work in an office environment, you might easily think workplace safety pertains solely to physical safety; your office has no heavy machinery, forklifts, or clearly contagious employees, so it must be safe, right? Not necessarily.

Five hundred years ago, Michel de Montaigne said, "My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened." We’re STILL spending a lot of time worrying…

I can say with conviction that Momentum Consulting co-founder Craig Clark also happens to be the best dad in the world. 5 years ago I gave him a journal with 20 reasons why that’s the case. I recently found the journal and wanted to…

Accountability no longer means responsibility to me. It means total and complete ownership for all that I do…

Rules imply all sorts of standards, and our core values serve as our own little secret set of rules for everyone…

Employee morale is at an all-time low. Productivity is way down, and negative Glassdoor comments are increasing. Why is morale low? There could be hundreds of reasons…

You’re standing in front of your people or addressing them via video, and all you get are blank stares. You ask, what do I have to do to get everyone engaged?

Personal development is so great…Can we take a break now?

In 45 years, I have found that most breakdowns in business can be traced to an absence of authenticity…

We’ve all heard of working smart, but what about working fun?

This is the culprit for most breakdowns. We don’t share our expectations and then wonder why others let us down. Why? First, we assume other people will just get it. Second, to share our expectations means to be vulnerable…

Stop holding people accountable; it doesn’t work. But leadership coaching is built around accountability, so how can I say it doesn’t work?

In silence, how long does it take your internal commentator to start chattering? What do you notice about its nature? We just returned from a silent retreat…

Whatever the reason Generation X is so often overlooked as “the sandwich generation,” it would behoove organizations to throw a little attention their way...