Building SUSTAINABLE PROFITABILITY from the Bottom UP!
Detailed explanation of the key factors that contribute to sustainable profitability and how they can be effectively managed.
Coauthored with Dwight Mihalicz (Canada); PEX Network; March 7, 2019

6 unwritten rules to create Sustainable Profitability!
Exposé revealing the 6 rules that lead from management action to sustainable profitability.
PEX Network; June 21, 2019

The Promise of the Big Convergence
Detailed overview and explanation of the key components that could comprise a SMART Enterprise.
PEX Network; April 26, 2018

10 must-answer questions about SMART CONTRACTS
Discussion of the challenges faced by SMART contracts which must be overcome before they are accepted in general use.
PEX Network; April 5, 2019<

Unless We're Thinking SMART PLANET, We're Thinking TOO SMALL!
Expanded overview of presentation at World Blockchain Summit in Moscow 2018.
LinkedIN; May 2, 2018

Effective Knowledge Transfer, Capture and Preservation: A Case Study, Part One
Case study (part 1) of knowledge transfer, capture and preservation program implemented at Nalco Champion, an Ecolab company.
Coauthored with Dynisha Klugh (USA); Training Industry; May 5, 2019

Effective Knowledge Transfer, Capture and Preservation: A Case Study, Part Two
Case study (part 2) of knowledge transfer, capture and preservation program implemented at Nalco Champion, an Ecolab company.
Coauthored with Dynisha Klugh (USA); Training Industry; June 1, 2019

Effective Knowledge Transfer, Capture and Preservation: A Case Study, Part Three
Case study (part 3) of knowledge transfer, capture and preservation program implemented at Nalco Champion, an Ecolab company.
Coauthored with Dynisha Klugh (USA); Training Industry; July 1, 2019

Discover the Secret Ingredients of an Effective Training Program
Introduces and explains the essential elements of a skills-based training program.
Gulf Business Network Training Center; September 18, 2018

Before You Get Into Cognitive Social Science & Brain-Based Research
Presents the argument that before focusing too much attention on detailed research into turning around saffing productivity, engage employees by creating a supportive workplace environment.
Human Talent Network; January 22, 2015

A Ladder and A Bowtie are Better than a Bandage
Provides an explanation for why many organizations have stalled in their pursuit of a safety culture and introduces the Safety Culture Ladder in combinatin with the Bowtie Chart as a means for creating steady progress toward managing risk.
LinkedIN; February 10, 2016

Put a Bowtie on Your Risk Management Program
Brief explanation of the Bowtie Chart approach to risk management. LinkedIN; February 10, 2016

HR & EHS Professionals Urged to Learn a Foreign Language
Provides a rationale with an example for why HR and EHS professionals should present their proposals in terms of ROI in order to be more competitive in gaining budgetary support.
LinkedIN; April 19, 2016

What is the Difference between LEADERSHIP and MANAGEMENT?
Addresses the question why so many CEOs who have had ample access to training fail in their first few years on the job and explains why training can move an individual only so far along the journey to becoming a leader.
Select International Blog; March 11, 2018

Lessons of LEADERSHIP in Trying Times from Puerto Rico
Discusses leadership at high levels against the backdrop of damage in Puerto Rico as a result of a category 5 hurricane.
LinkedIN; October 1, 2017

LEADERSHIP: Shotcallers to CEOs
Compares corporate CEOs and gang shotcallers in terms of leadership qualities that contribute to success.
LinkedIN; February 1, 2019

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT -- When We All See Ourselves in the Picture!
Offers a quick look at employee engagement in terms of trust, respect, and teamwork as essential components in the relationship between management and workers.
LinkedIN; October 13, 2018

Scripts, Roles, Casting & PROCESS MANAGEMENT
A look at how the management styles that drive excellence in Cirque du Soleil performances could be used to elevate customer satisfaction in business operations.
LinkedIN; March 5, 2019

Want to Improve Your Corporate Culture?
Explains why so many well-intentioned efforts to improve corporate culture fail and how to generate better results.
People Development Network; August 16, 2016

STRESS Devours CULTURE -- End of Story!
If it is important to be concerned over the stress that employees might bring to work with them, then why are we not concerned about managing the stress employees encounter in the workplace that could limit productivity and have implications for safe operations?
LinkedIN; June 2, 2019

Hollywood Screenwriters Know How to Blow Away Workplace Drama!
A look at how screenwriters manage conflict in movies and how that can be applied in the workplace.
LinkedIN; June 25, 2017

STRESS IN THE AIR: A Vital Lesson for Business Executives
Discussion of how stress decreases safe and productive operations.
LinkedIN; January 27, 2019

Don't Run Naked Through The Office!
Brief overview of the benefits of reading Boots in the Office.
LinkedIN; April 17, 2018

TRAPS and MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES a Bad Boss will use to snare you!
How to recognize the your boss is setting a trap for you or employing manipulation techniques and 4 examples from the book Don't Run Naked Through The Office.
People Development Network; June 29, 2019

TAKE THIS JOB and ... Shove What?
Excerpt from Don't Run Naked Through The Office discussing the importance of taking charge of your professional development and career.
LinkedIN; November 9, 2018

HOW AM I DOING BOSS?
Excerpt from Don't Run Naked Through The Office discussing the importance of evaluating the source of performance feedback.
LinkedIN; October 31, 2018

America's Torture Crisis & Similar Problems in the Workplace
Discussion of the problems propagated when publicly stated core values of a business operation differ substantially from functional core values.
Human Talent Network; January 20, 2015

EBOLA & Viruses That Kill Employee Productivity
Examination of the Ebola crisis in terms of the importance of managing the employee experience and extablishing trusting interorganization relationships between employees and management.
Human Talent Network; October 24, 2014

200,000 dead & counting: The Calamity of Unmitigated Cascading Failures
Consideration of whether Americans can muster the resolve going forward to contain the Pandemic, confront the ravages of climate change, eliminate poverty, and eradicate racism among a plethora of other ongoing challenges faced as a country before succumbing to so many cascading failures that it ceases to possess the ability to function as a democracy.
LinkedIN; September 25, 2020

Institutions of Higher Education that Support Staff & Faculty Graduate More Students
University chancellors who seek to elevate their scores have the means to do so by increasing their support for staff and faculty as these are the people who ultimately serve their primary customers, the students.
LinkedIN; June 27, 2016