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Advising on Executive Retirement

More and more people these days are facing the exciting, challenging, and, yes, frightening life event we call “retirement”. While WJM Associates has been coaching and advising senior executives for…
Find Your Resilience

BC Forbes, one of the greatest business leaders of the past century, was famous for stating, “victory is often nearest when defeat seems inescapable.” Resilience is the quality we need…
Characteristics of a Poor Leader

During a series of 3-day leadership development workshops for middle managers, I asked the participants to reflect upon the “best” boss they ever had and to write down the key…
Trapped in the Family Business®

If you do not have direct experience in a family business, you probably don’t know what it feels like, or maybe how it is even possible, to be trapped in…
Hiring and Developing Leaders: Lessons from Family Businesses & Private Equity-Backed Companies

In his best-selling book Good to Great, author Jim Collins points out that companies that go from good to great begin not with where are we going, rather who are…
Beyond the Matrix: Building Capacity to Collaborate

In order to fully realize the advantages of a matrixed organization, people need to develop their capacity to collaborate by learning to think and interact differently with one another. Contemporary…

Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Acclaimed presidential biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin turns the stories of four American Presidents (Lincoln, Roosevelt, Roosevelt and Johnson) into a skillful primer for leaders in times of crisis. She describes the “crucible events” for each man (debilitating depression, death of wife and mother, polio, etc.) and how each emerged with an enlarged capacity to lead the country through its most…