“Owners of small businesses often seem to believe in myths surrounding the subject of strategic planning and implementation, myths that can prove dangerous to the health of the organization and their personal goals. (The ‘myths’ in quotation marks are actual statements from CEOs. The rest were unstated but implied by their actions.)”

“It’s essential for leaders to spark conflict in their organizations, as long as it is constructive. A Q&A with Professor Michael Roberto, author of the new book ‘Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer’.”

“A significant percentage of the clients we’ve worked with in the past 6 years have healthy engineering teams in-house, but they lack a single designer. Flush with programmers, devoid of designers. That’s not a healthy ratio… Design needs daily tweaking just like programming needs daily tweaking to squash bugs and optimize the code.”