When all is good Read More »

Quarterly results are in.  Fantastic.   Share price moving in the right direction.   Board happy; Analysts impressed.   It feels like everything is a well oiled machine.   It has not always been this way.   But I am really delighted by what is happening.   We have a good team.  We have had few defections.  There are few client…

When I am tempted to believe everything depends on me Read More »

The feedback that I receive, Lord, is that I do too much myself; I micromanage; and I do not exhibit enough trust in my colleagues.   I fear that my delegation is incomplete.   Would you help me feel safe in letting others figure out their own processes after I have identified the outcome and the appropriate

Sad, Depressed, Overwhelmed Read More »

I feel overwhelmed.   Nothing seems to be working.  I am not happy with anything: results, colleagues, my own performance.   How did I get into this funk?   I have always been confident, relatively happy and together.   But now I do not feel very strong, very effective, or put together.   Where do I go from here?   How

Yes, it is time for me to go Read More »

I am on my last hurrah here.   I have announced my retirement and the board has accepted it.   Don’t let me accept the chairmanship they offer, but rather allow my successor the same latitude I had in establishing my leadership. I can be available as a consultant to my successor as desired, but not be

Is it time to go? Read More »

Timeless God, I have been in this role for a good deal of time.   How will I know when it is time to let someone else be in charge? I have not accomplished everything that I would have liked, but our team has done pretty well growing the business, establishing a healthy climate and inculcating

When I realize I will not be CEO Read More »

Lord, I have aspired to greater responsibility and the possible leadership of a great enterprise.   I have been well mentored.   My knowledge of the market and our organization has positioned me to be a worthy contender to eventually become chief executive.   I have experienced the dwindling number of candidates for this prize as the performance

Perspective Read More »

God of the ages, it is possible for us to be carried away by our own importance, by the way our thoughts are turned into action by those we lead.  We can be justifiably proud of our accomplishments, the revenue and profit that our company earns, by the esteem our organization commands and our own

Listening Read More »

Immanent God, do you actually speak to us? Do we just talk at you or is there a real dialog? How do we know if and when you are speaking to us? Sceptics think we are just speaking into the ionosphere and practicing a grand illusion.   Our forbearers seemed to be ok speaking and listening

Facing Crises: Losing a Big Customer Read More »

God of relationships, I fear we may lose a big customer on whom we rely for revenue.   I have always been afraid that too much of our performance was based upon this one entity; but we have not been successful diversifying.   A couple of things worry me.   One is that we had a glitch in

Facing Crises: Poor Results Read More »

Righteous God, we have troubles.   We have had two quarters of flat performance and we budgeted for double digit growth.  We hired for it, we marketed for it and it has not happened yet.   I am not the only one losing sleep as we try to dig out.   I prefer to hold our investment in