By Jim Whitt After eating my Vietnamese Salad Rolls I popped open my fortune cookie to see what words of wisdom it contained. For those
By Jim Whitt I’m not Catholic but I “liked” the pope on Facebook after reading an article entitled Pope Francis urges Catholics to shake up
By Jim Whitt When I hired on as a pen rider at Wheatheart Feeders in 1972 there were roughly 20 cowboys and 60 company horses.
Tulsa business consultant, writer and speaker Jim Whitt will be the keynote speaker at the Management Leadership Institute’s breakfast series next week. The breakfast, which
By Jim Whitt I just read an article by Bill Barnett in the Harvard Business Review entitled When Choosing a Job, Culture Matters. That is
By Jim Whitt My friend Don Riley sent me this email after the holidays: Hi Jim, Hope you and your family had a wonderful holiday
By Jim Whitt I received this email from my friend Peter McGuill: Jim, Hope all is well. I was thinking of you earlier today. I
By Jim Whitt If you’ve read Riding for the Brand: The Power of Purposeful Leadership, you know there are four principles for leaders to follow
I always enjoy hearing from readers. The following is an email I received from Steve that I thought was worth sharing… Hi Jim, I’m 65
By Jim Whitt In an article entitled Why I Miss That Old Meanie Simon Cowell, The Telegraph’s Michael Deacon had this to say about American
By Jim Whitt If you’ve been watching American Idol you got to see a train wreck last week. In my opinion – and remember, it’s
By Jim Whitt All of us are probably watching what’s been happening in Libya, Egypt and the rest of the Mideast with conflicted feelings. We’d
By Jim Whitt Just how effective is money as a motivator? Research conducted by MIT, the University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon reveals that monetary
By Jim Whitt I found a treasure trove of ideas in responses from readers to my article about Writer’s Block on September 29 (if you
By Jim Whitt You’ve probably heard of the 80/20 rule of business — 20% of your customers account for 80% of your revenue. So, you
By Jim Whitt On the list of things that are done for all the wrong reasons in organizations, performance reviews would have to rank near
By Jim Whitt A couple of weeks ago I wrote about some customer service experiences that served as lessons for what shouldn’t happen. Unfortunately those
By Kay Caldwell A leader, by definition, is someone who can pursue, conduct, escort or direct, encourage and above all influence. I have never read
By Kay Caldwell The 4th of July has come and gone and our freedom still exists. I had more people say to me “Have a
By Kay Caldwell The study of human behavior is something I have built a career around. People are fascinating to watch. We are all leaders.
By Gerald Daniels When leaders lose their way in the world, their followers get lost as well. People get lost from time to time; it