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The Real Challenge of Telecommuting

August 5, 2017Ken WredeNo comments

Telecommuting isn’t a new topic. Under the right conditions there are many advantages for both employees and employers. At both ends of the spectrum there are jobs that are impossible for telecommuting (i.e.: manufacturing) and there are jobs that are perfect (i.e.: some accounting tasks). We find the challenges in that grey blob in the middle. Those challenges can be our…

The Critical Obstacle to Innovation

February 28, 2017Ken WredeNo comments

Everyone agrees that innovation is the magical key to the future, a strategic activity that cannot be ignored. A major topic of CEOs and MBA programs world-wide. The biggest obstacle to innovation in any organization has absolutely nothing to do with innovation. The biggest obstacle is that very few organizations create the strategic group culture…

The Delegation Challenge

February 23, 2017Ken WredeNo comments

The biggest challenge for most people when delegating to others is that they don’t trust their subordinates on a fundamental level. The inability to delegate is not a leadership problem, it is actually only a symptom of a larger leadership problem: the absence of trust and confidence. Who is responsible for building that trust? If…

The Slippery Slope of Integrity

February 15, 2017Ken Wrede1 comment

There are basically two kinds of people who get involved in unethical actions in business. In one case, they are proactive and premeditated in their actions. In the other case, it just sorta happens.

Leadership Helped Me Lose 15 Pounds… and Counting.

October 26, 2016Ken WredeNo comments

I think like everyone, I could stand to drop a little weight. I’m not morbidly obese, but I have a specific weight, 195 pounds (or about 88.5 kilos) where I really start to feel awful. I’m lethargic, I have nightly acid reflux, blood pressure is up, and my lab results tend toward those seemingly inevitable middle-age…

Leaders Have No Right to Demand Trust

October 1, 2016Ken WredeNo comments

Leaders must protect the most important asset generated by healthy organizational cultures: Trust. It is through the process of good culture that leaders earn trust of their subordinates. Leaders who ignore that lesson destroy corporate value.  

Best Decisions Come from the Best Evidence

September 20, 2016Ken WredeNo comments

There is no successful business model based on people making bad decisions out of bad information or ignorance… Except maybe dealing drugs. Decision making isn’t just about making quick decisions, it is about making the best decisions possible based on the best evidence available.

Interview… 9 September 2016 0800EST

September 14, 2016Ken WredeNo comments

Thank you Jamie Meloni for the great interview at “That Business Show” from WHNZ 1250. I really appreciate the chance to share my ideas and philosophies of leadership. Your show is a great resource for the local Tampa Bay Region. You can check out what a great job Jamie does with my interview during the…

It is up to you

August 29, 2016Ken WredeNo comments

Tomorrow is the essence of optimism. It comes in at midnight – pure and clean. How it ends… is up to us.

Amazon Best Seller Ranking

August 5, 2016Ken WredeNo comments

I was able to crack the Amazon Best Seller Top 10 list. I came in as an Amazon Hot New Release and rode that wave to the Top 10. I peaked at #6 in the paid Kindle Occupational & Organizational category. But, I didn’t think to make a screen capture until later after the book…

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