Indra Nooyi is the Chairperson of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PepsiCo., the world’s fourth largest food and beverage company. Nooyi has been named the #1 Most Powerful Business Woman in the world in 2006 and 2007 by Fortune Magazine. According to the polls Forbes magazine conducted, Nooyi ranks third on the…
If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you know that this “Out-of-the-Box Thinking” series was originated to share unique modern day examples of people and/or organizations that have demonstrated their willingness to venture beyond conventional thinking. In so many of our creative-thinking seminars and keynote presentations, the following concern has emerged at one point…
I’ve been watching with great interest as the nation’s banking institutions continue to act and react in ways that are unacceptable, unexplainable, and unchallenged by those in Washington, D.C. I’ll spare you the details you’ve been hearing daily for months now. However, I can’t help but wonder if someone in authority didn’t see this coming….
It was two years ago that we published our first blog article. Our opening paragraph read: Welcome to the AchieveMax® Blog … the blog created to provide you with the latest buzz from the business world in addition to a constant offering of C.A.N.I. (Continuous And Never-ending Improvement) tips, tools, and strategies. We created the…
Here’s another author whose work adorns the bookshelves of many organization presidents and C-Level leaders (CEO/CFO/CIO). I also find his books in many of the corporate libraries I browse among our clients all over North America … and for good reason. Lencioni’s books feature fictional characters facing familiar organizational problems. Readers at every level of…
According to ASTD (American Society for Training and Development), the average American worker spends 26.3 hours in the classroom annually. Read that sentence again slowly and let it sink in. How do you feel about that number? Does that seem high to you? After all, that’s a full day plus a couple of hours. Long…
I’m currently in the process of facilitating several leadership programs with some terrific clients. Each is a long-term series in which we cover a wide variety of leadership tips, tools and strategies. We tackle one exercise which is a lot of fun but, at the same time, illustrates the power and importance of tapping our…
During a recent trip to the west coast, I had occasion to spend some time with a client in the historical Silicon Valley. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, this high-tech economic center is home to a large number of innovative business leaders, such as: Yahoo, Google, eBay, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and…
I recently enjoyed a very productive kick-off session to another leadership seminar series. Part of our focus dealt with the development of front-line employees. The subject of reading arose, and we discussed various authors and books which should appear on any must-read list. A few days later I received an e-mail from one of the…