In this next installment of Consulting Conversations, Hank Harris shares a few pointers. I think the answer to both of those questions is somewhat similar. I think if you step back and think, 'what is a culture?' A culture is essentially shared behavior in an organization. One of the most importa...

In this Consulting Conversations episode, Hank Harris answers:I think that a couple of things I've seen work well in leadership development in a family business: is I think that if you're bringing family into the business, it is much healthier if those family members work somewhere else and are r...

Most of those cycles occur "organically" meaning they are a function of basic economic factors (supply, demand, pricing, etc.), as well as mass human psychological reactions to those factors. For example, out of the five recessions I have lived through thus far, the first four were caused, respec...