Leadership 2/8

Terry Dockery

Mar 19, 20193 min read

Family, Business, or Family Business?

I love working with family businesses. The very challenge of it will make inexperienced consultants lose their nerve (or should). Not...

Terry Dockery

Mar 12, 20192 min read

WISE TO BE YOUR SPOUSE'S BOSS?

Mixing love and money is mighty tricky (please feel free to quote me on this, as long as you leave "mighty" in). There are a thousand...

Terry Dockery

Mar 5, 20192 min read

THE TWO COMPONENTS OF HIGH PERFORMANCE

Maps are great. Think about it, if you don’t have a map you can spend a lot of time just wandering aimlessly from place to place trying...

Terry Dockery

Mar 1, 20193 min read

BUSINESS ROCK & ROLL ALL STARS

I've been playing in rock and roll bands, full-time and part-time, for almost 40 years. The best bandleader I've ever worked with once said,

LEADERSHIP DETERMINES FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

Terry Dockery

Feb 26, 20192 min read

LEADERSHIP DETERMINES FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

John, the COO, looked troubled as he sat in the conference room with Susan, his friend and confidant and one of the promising young...

Terry Dockery

Feb 1, 20193 min read

WHEN DOES COACHING HELP?

If you’re a betting person, then here’s a good bet with great odds: bet that people stay the same more than they change. Most people have...

Terry Dockery

Jan 2, 20193 min read

TOURIST SEASON AT THE YMCA

Our family has belonged to the YMCA down the road since it opened many years ago. I served on the board for a few years, two of our...

Terry Dockery

Oct 31, 20182 min read

WISE TO BE YOUR SPOUSE'S BOSS?

Mixing love and money is mighty tricky (please feel free to quote me on this, as long as you leave "mighty" in). There are a thousand...

Terry Dockery

Oct 3, 20183 min read

TOO MUCH BUSINESS EQUALS BUSINESS FAILURE

A long time ago I waited tables at a nice restaurant in Savannah, Georgia. Savannah is home to a large Irish Catholic population, and St....

Terry Dockery

Jul 31, 20182 min read

ELON MUSK: POSTER CHILD FOR OVERACHIEVERS

Has Elon Musk become the poster child for overachievers who are rich and unhappy? I think I get it--setting stretch goals and being rich...

Terry Dockery

Jul 4, 20182 min read

WHEN IS A CONVENIENT TIME FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATION?

Put another way, when is a convenient time to have more fun and make more money? Well, of course the obvious answers are "never" and...

Terry Dockery

Jun 3, 20182 min read

THEORY X AND THEORY Y ARE BOTH RIGHT

I don't hear as much talk about Douglas McGregor's Theory X & Theory Y these days. That's a shame because it's a very helpful model for...

Terry Dockery

May 6, 20182 min read

ARE CORE VALUES IMPORTANT? ASK WELLS FARGO...

I trust you're familiar with the fallout from the Wells Fargo "make a buck any way you can" fiasco. It's just another in a long line of...

Terry Dockery

Apr 1, 20182 min read

IS STRATEGIC DIFFERENTIATION ESSENTIAL FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS?

I've been around the strategic planning game for quite a while now, and people keep telling me that strategic differentiation is...

Terry Dockery

Mar 5, 20182 min read

IS YOUR WORLD FAIR?

So I'm sitting in class during graduate school, and one of the worst professors we've ever had makes one more arbitrary, disorganized,...

Terry Dockery

Feb 5, 20182 min read

HOW IMPORTANT IS DOING WHAT YOU SAY YOU'LL DO?

My colleague and I were talking recently about how often business leaders that we know don't do what they say they'll do. It could be...

Terry Dockery

Jan 1, 20182 min read

HOW IMPORTANT IS MONEY TO BUSINESS SUCCESS?

Well, of course it's important, but how? I've learned a lot about fundraising over the past few months, and my current perspective is...

Terry Dockery

Sep 3, 20173 min read

THE A-PLAYER COMPENSATION PLAN

Anytime I hear a CEO say, "My employees are lazy and they don't care about the company," or "Nobody wants to work anymore," it's a red...

Terry Dockery

Jul 2, 20173 min read

BULLETIN: ATLANTA FALCONS RECRUIT CHEAP PLAYERS

No, this is not a real bulletin (sorry Mr. Blank), but imagine if it were. If we assume that the main goals of the Atlanta Falcons are:...

Terry Dockery

May 31, 20173 min read

4 BAD HABITS THAT GUARANTEE POOR LEADERSHIP

Since we live in a society in which we have freedom of choice, the primary limiters of our happiness and success are our unrealistic...