Have you noticed how many article titles have numbers in them? You know: 10 Places You Must Travel, 5 Tips for Better Tweets, 3 Reasons to Eat Better, …..Obviously, as readers, we are fascinated by lists – otherwise there wouldn’t be so many of these articles. Here is one I clicked on recently: “8 Rules For [...]

I had a board member from a nonprofit organization tell  me that their board decided they should stop focusing so   much on performance measures and consider other means  of evaluating their executive. After I stopped choking on the water that I happened to swallow at that very moment, I asked her why? She said [...]