Category: Thayer Posts

  • Leadership & Life

    February 16, 2020
    Most of the world’s wisdom is not about leadership, or even management. It is about how to live. All else…
  • Do People Change?

    August 9, 2019
    People are forever in the process of becoming who they are. What this means is that you have a life,…
  • Be the Composer & Arranger

    August 2, 2019
    Most business organizations are hodge-podge. They either evolve by happenstance into a tinker-toy like structure.  Or, those who are in control simply…
  • Fads & Fashions

    July 25, 2019
    Everything You Do or Say or Think or Feel or Have…Is Guided by Fashion There was a time when people…
  • Leadership Self-Analysis

    July 18, 2019
    Are You Event-Driven or Purpose-Driven? Most people, and thus most organizations, are event-driven. Leaders, and their organizations, are purpose-driven. In…
  • Would You Risk It?

    July 6, 2019
    Risk & Security Security is expensive. Risk is expensive. It is in the right balance between the two that a right life emerges. Too…
  • What Does Your Communication Reveal?

    June 25, 2019
    Your “lexicon” is like your fingerprints. Everyone has a “lexicon.” It is simply the set of words (and thus concepts} regularly used.…
  • Do You Love Your Work?

    June 18, 2019
    “Loving” Your Work Your attitude toward work is critical to the life you want and need. Understand this: You will love your work…
  • What Makes a Leader Successful

    June 9, 2019
    A Leader’s Success It isn’t the “leader” who makes the organization successful; It is the organization that makes the leader…
  • Is Your Story Inevitable?

    June 3, 2019
    Foretelling the Inevitable Prophets are historians. It is just that they are foretelling the history of the future. Good leaders…