This time of year – beyond the holiday shopping and slow down in business – is when most business leaders, executives, and owners start to plan.  They reach into the filing cabinet or search their computers and dust off last year’s business plan.  It is that annual ritual of reading what they thought they would do this year (and didn’t) and write out...

Out of a desire to provoke, agitate, prod, and poke the eyes of those that consider themselves masters of the social media universe, the following twenty theses are put forward. You are invited to debate, comment, defend, attack, and otherwise attempt to credit/discredit the truths in these twenty theses. 1. There is no “Lord” of social media. There are...

The year is winding down and it could be said that 2010 is (was) the year of Facebook and social media.  The number of subscribers to Facebook has gone north of 500 million.  The number of big brands claiming their Fan Pages has grown dramatically as well.  Small businesses are flocking to social media, Facebook in particular, seeking a new means to engage...

During a presentation on building talented business teams and better morale that I gave, a question was raised about who is ultimately responsible for morale.  One audience member had taken the position that it is the responsibility of the leader or leadership to set the tone.  Another audience member felt it was incumbent upon the employees to be responsible...

Nathan Bryce is the inventor of the world’s first patented personality system, the Insight Temperament System, which applies the research of Carl Jung, David Keirsey, Isabel Myers (and many others) into real-life settings. His educational company, the non-profit Insight Learning Foundation, teaches hundreds of thousands of people all around the world how...