Tony Richards

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We live in a totally different age today. Significant changes appear to be happening not by the day but by the second. Technological changes, political changes, social changes,...

Everything today is moving faster than ever. As Baptist minister Henry Emerson Fosdick said in the early 20th century, “The world is moving so fast these days that...

In ancient days, sea captains used an instrument called a sextant to determine the distance between the North Star and the horizon. This calculation enabled them to establish...

I’m often asked by clients how to be more proactive, how to take a leap of faith to move off the conceptual process and get into action. It’s...

Leadership requires decision-making. There is just no way around it. Leaders make hundreds and even thousands of decisions during the course of any given situation. Some of those...

There are some things we just take for granted because we have heard them all our lives. “If I can do it, you can do it,” “You can...

In the 21st century, leaders are feeling the challenge of being able to effectively lead with the hard skills of leadership and management: skills such as growing assets,...

We’ve recently become reacquainted with the quartet from the 1980s television show that spawned T-shirts, toys, cartoons and had us all asking questions such as, “Whadda lookin’ at...

One of the key success factors of any organization is communication. In our diagnostic studies of people and organizations, it’s typically one of the critical areas that needs...

The start of a new year is almost upon us, and this is the time when our thoughts turn to what next year might bring, both personally and...