In the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program, I teach the module on leadership. We use a styles inventory, which like so many of these tools offers a 2×2 square. These squares reduce all of the aspects of leadership styles can be reduced to four words. Myers Briggs, Disc, Styles at Work, all have 4 […]
Celebrating My Father and His Contribution
My father, Donald T. Moss, was born the youngest of nine children in the Jim Crow South, in a small town called Winnfield, Louisiana in 1937 to Lorenza and Frank Moss. By the time he was 5 years old, his mother had succumbed to diabetes. Frank (born in 1886) & Lorenza, my grandparents, were the […]
Building Positive Relationships
Relationships are challenging at best. Even the most positive relationships have their ups and downs. Everett and I have been tracking and exploring our personal and business relationships. We agree the following are important elements to a successful relationship of any kind with another human being. Making that human-to-human connection in an authentic way. Every […]
Discovering Your Blind Spots
I frequently facilitate planning with organizations and their teams. I help them flush out their blocks and obstacles and assess their environment and internal capacity. And even with that work, blind spots always show up during implementation. Blind spots are issues, behaviors, biases, challenges, operating outside of your awareness. You often can’t see them until […]
Strategic Planning is Planting Seeds
Spring moves us to action. And for organizations, planning is like planting seeds in the spring for summer flowers. We have been fielding lots of requests for strategic planning over the past few months. Then, we realized that organizations postponed their natural planning cycles because of COVID. Since COVID, the world has changed so much. […]
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