On Leadership and Wristwatches

Does your boss really need you? Does your company need you? Why are you so important that your company or organization should pay you and bother with all of your upkeep? I mean think about the cost savings and freedom from aggravation if you no longer showed up to work. If you were no longer [...]

Leadership Follies– Cutting through the Meat

My wife showed me that training is only the beginning. Follow through enables real lasting learning.

Natural Laws of Leadership: Empowerment Through Inaction

Dave Hasenbalg is Chief Operating Officer of Customized Solutions, LLC and does coaching and public speaking on Leadership and Operational Excellence.
He can be reached at dhasenbalg@customized-solutions.com

Professional or People Development?

In a tough economy, now is the time to develop your people. It is your best hedge against competitive forces. It is also the key to rebounding your bottom line. So if you decide to go forward with something like this, what is your people development strategy? Notice that I said people development and not professional development. [...]

Little League Rules!

O.K…I’m a sports dork. I readily admit it.  As I write, I am watching the Little League World Series game, Canada vs. Mexico.  I am neither Canadian nor Mexican and I don’t know anyone on the teams.  However, I love the purity of the game. The players are respectful of each other.  The teams compete [...]

Leading With the Lost Art of Rhetoric (like… whatever…)

I am a “rhetoric snob.”  I admit it.  It’s not pretty.  I listen to how people speak (leaders in particular), and I observe how they use words and phrases as they try to earn credibility, become memorable, persuade, and influence.  As a result, I often cast wide nets on people’s character and make judgment calls [...]

On Leadership and Wife-Beaters

Why is it that inanimate objects can control how we think, feel, and react sometimes? I am talking about the kind of reaction that one has when they turn their head, see something unexpected, yet familiar, and they get a strong internal response just to seeing that image. Now, I am not talking about anything [...]

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