Sustainability

Management  ·  Strategic Planning-Foresight  ·  Strategy
Guest Blogger – Serendipity

      Horace Walpole coined the word serendipity in 1754 after reading the Three Princes of Serendip. The princes “were always making discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.” Today, we have tools […]

March 5, 2012

Management  ·  Strategy  ·  Sustainability
Job Strategies for 21st Century

“Where much is given, much is required” is a theme that I have embraced since I’ve gotten some many opportunities.  Last weekend, I gave a lecture at Payne Avenue Missionary Baptist Church on job strategies for the 2st century.  I […]

February 27, 2012

Management  ·  Strategy  ·  Sustainability
The Power of Creating Sustainable Content

The buzz rang across the world. The word was finally out, “Whitney Houston was dead.”  On February 12, 2012, Whitney died at the age of 48 years old. It was hard to believe she was gone. Through the public eyes, […]

February 20, 2012

Strategy  ·  Sustainability
Beating the Global Competition with Value Creation

I do struggle a little with my conscious.  Yes, I’ve been called a pretty hard nose professor who pushes his students.  I tell my students I have a low rating on empathy and mercy when it relates to missing my […]

February 13, 2012

Strategic Planning-Foresight  ·  Strategy  ·  Sustainability
Launching Ahead toward an Unknown Future

    When I was a Regent University doctorate student, I often wrote my assignments toward publication.  As I took my courses, I always tried to write on similar themes to reduce my research time and make me more efficient.  […]

February 6, 2012

Leadership Development  ·  Sustainability
Making a Special Connection with Followers

Immediately after the first 2012 Republican Presidential Debate in Florida, Former Governor Mitt Rommey released his 2010 tax statement. However, Rommey’s wealth did surprise most people.  Some individuals probably harbored class envy of him. Yet, I was also amazed at […]

January 30, 2012

Strategy  ·  Sustainability
2012 and the Brink of Destruction: Answering the Sustainability Question for America

 While on vacation on the Gulf of Mexico, I decided to take an early morning swim alone. I marveled at the white sand and the tranquility of my surroundings. However, I did not see the danger.  Several days earlier I […]

January 9, 2012

Leadership Development  ·  Management  ·  Sustainability
Practicing Philanthropy

In most cases, individuals are not hurt by giving to others.  My co-author, Noriko Chapman, emailed me last week about royalties on our book, Second Chance, and how the funds would go to charity.  While I looked at this book […]

December 5, 2011

Career strategies  ·  Leadership Development  ·  Management  ·  Sustainability
Sustaining Employability

When my job as human resource manager was eliminated in September of 2010, I felt a sense of gloom and doom for exactly two days. It happened on a Tuesday, one day after my six-year anniversary. (At least they allowed […]

November 14, 2011

Sustainability
Whole Foods Market in 2008 – Group B

During this week, Lincoln Memorial University’s MBA students in MBA 595 will analyze top corporate organizations. In this blog topic, Group B consisting of Paul Holloway, Lindsey Howard, Champ Knight, Frank Metcalf will evaluate ‘Whole Foods.’ Executive Summary                      Within two […]

November 9, 2011

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