Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.

Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.

The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards.

As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization.