by Bruce Hodes | May 20, 2022 | General, Planning
Given all the unprecedented challenges businesses have been dealing with in the past two years, I support you and your organization in having a fantastic second half of 2022 instead of another six months of survival mode. Given the Challenges such as rising fuel...
by Bruce Hodes and CMI | Dec 30, 2021 | General, Planning
Faces framed and puffy. Eyes glazed and unfocused…. As usual, same time, same zoom. That CFO’s cat gets less cute and more mangey every time I see it. Him letting her purr during the meeting, not so much. Kid screaming needing daddy every time we meet. Sales VP...
by Bruce Hodes and CMI | Jul 12, 2021 | General, Planning
Context is decisive. My mother always said that to me…Not really…. I learned this in a Landmark seminar. It rocked my world, my understanding of the world and what gives the world meaning. The instructor wags his index finger and asks; “what is this?” “A finger”, we...
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 | Dec 22, 2020 | General, Planning
But keep your mask on… Your year-end planning may seem like a totally different process this year – not even accounting for the logistics of having to do it at a distance, behind masks, or via Zoom – but uncertainty does not mitigate the need for solid...
