by Patti Blackstaffe | Jan 28, 2013 | Culture, Leadership, Team
Have you ever noticed when a really catchy song comes on the radio, you can’t help but tap a toe, hum or even sing along? For me, it is when a song from my late teens and early twenties comes alive. There is something about reminiscing back to a time of personal...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Jan 21, 2013 | Culture, Leadership, Team
Ideal: Everyone wants to work for a great team and to give credit to a great team – that’s most people’s workplace utopia. Reality: Human dynamics, competition and workplace conflict make it difficult to know just where credit and responsibility are to be shared. Here...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Feb 14, 2012 | Business, Culture, M&A, Management
…When Cultures Collide in Mergers and Acquisitions Business consultants tell entrepreneurs to know their exit plan, and many focus on a merger or acquisition market as they build their businesses. This is especially true in the technology or engineering space,...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Oct 25, 2011 | Culture, Engagement, Leadership
There is a commercial on television where a woman and man are sitting in a reception area, the woman turns to her husband and says, “I just want to stop paying checking fees” and a woman at the reception desk says, “If you want to stop paying checking fees, then stop...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Oct 3, 2011 | Culture, Customer Service, Leadership
”Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” –Aristotle...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Apr 13, 2011 | Culture
Strategic Sense, in addition to providing Leadership Training, has made a commitment to highlight some of the remarkable authors, leadership professionals and business people we’ve had the great fortune of meeting and working with over the last 3 years. On Wednesdays...
