THE POWER, AND VALUE OF TRUST

The caller was British. With a hint of Dutch. He owned a smallish ($25mm) company a few hundred miles from me, and needed a CEO and Board Member. He wanted to take the lumber from the woods, bring it to the mills, make logs from it, and sell it. Clearly, it was not a...

Judgement. A Necessity in the C-Suite.

As we sauntered through the bucolic hills and valleys of Western Pennsylvania, my friend and colleague looked at me and said, “What were they thinking?” It was a rhetorical question. The subject was judgment, and how sometimes it is not used by operating executives....