Do your meetings have a purpose or are they just filling a regular slot on your weekly calendar? When you meet with direct reports, who guides the meeting, you or them? Do these meetings have agendas or are they free-form get-togethers with no specific end-point...

Too often, CEOs and business owners running companies don’t utilize the brainpower and talents that reside within the organization. As a result, they get limited thinking. Whatever the business, I’m convinced that the people holding the shovel, working the end of the assembly line or inputting data...