by Bruce Hodes and CMI | Mar 28, 2021 | Article, General, Planning, Teambuilding
Business Leadership Teams Successfully Emerge Like those old scary movies…a creature from the black lagoon. Moonlight on the water, ripples, small at first. Then you see a head, then neck, shoulders, a trunk emerges, all covered in black yucky goo, smelling...
by Bruce Hodes and CMI | Feb 9, 2021 | Article, General, Planning
HERE WE ARE…RIGHT NOW Today, we are neither here, nor there. I see it, I feel it, taste it, and then not… The opportunity is here, there, and not really. We have a vaccine, and maybe you know someone that got it. Not you, your appointment is...
by Bruce Hodes and CMI | Nov 25, 2020 | Article, General
This is about a cover up—get it — planning with a mask…. had to say that. A chance to be silly – we need that. The challenging times continue with the kids at home, you at home, things shutting down or not, office workers working at the office in shifts,...
by Bruce Hodes and CMI | Sep 9, 2020 | Article, General
What follows is my latest thinking on what we are dealing with. Blue sky. … I am standing in the sun’s warmth on a grassy bank with a steep decline overlooking a meandering river. A winter chill is present. I am thinking business is good and 2020 is shaping up to be a...
by Bruce Hodes and CMI | Aug 21, 2020 | Article
I know that you are engaged and dealing with the next phase of this pandemic and the new abnormal. This was written by colleagues and I think it has a lot of great messages. Creating unnecessary complexity in your company can be a business killer. It quickly leads to...
by Bruce Hodes and CMI | Aug 13, 2020 | Article, General
On a Leadership Team of a Commercial Uniform Laundry, there is a Latina woman leading Production, a Latino male leading Maintenance and Executive Projects, a black woman leading Administration and a black woman leading HR. There are two white women, one in the...
