by Kevin Brimhall | Jan 16, 2017 | Personal Improvement
"No" is such a small word and yet so hard to say. Often we don’t want to say no, even when that’s the right thing to do because we don’t want to risk appearing unable, unappreciative, or disrespectful. We don’t always act as we know...
by Kevin Brimhall | Nov 7, 2014 | Book Summaries, Leadership
Ram Charan is a true thought-leader in business and has been advising CEOs and boards of directors at companies around the world for decades. Subtitled “How Your Company Really Works,” this book is one of this prolific author’s earliest books, yet it...
by Kevin Brimhall | Sep 10, 2010 | Leadership
An executive recently lamented that she and her company had far too many projects going on. All of them were important, she said, but insufficient progress was being made on most. In fact, she described her company as being "very good at getting things 80%...
by Kevin Brimhall | Oct 21, 2009 | Book Summaries, Personal Improvement
With such an intriguing title, I quickly accepted this book from Lyn Adams, my friend and financial advisor. Choosing to Cheat is about establishing priorities, making choices, and work-life balance…with an intended bias toward the life side. As the founding...
by Kevin Brimhall | Feb 1, 2009 | Motivation / Inspiration
A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station,...
