Today is not tomorrow...

Or is it?

Today is not tomorrow...that is it depends on which side of the global timelines you are sitting. A primary challenge in todays business practice and leadership is to find out how one is to guide and motivate a company and its people today in order to manage and grow for tomorrow in an ever increasing time sensitive business environment? How do you get your people, whether they be internal employees, sub-contractors, or consultants to challenge themselves to plan and pursue strategic and growth ideas while giving the appropriate attention to executing the here and now with the care and efficiency your company needs? In order to accomplish this it requires more and more leaders to continually deal personally with situations and concerns in order to navigate both external and internal battlegrounds. Today, more than ever, as nearly all markets have become global in so many ways, there is continual pressure on companies to cut costs and return capital to the bottom line. Also, building value demands that much of that same capital be diverted into long-term investments in order to maintain corporate stability within these trying and interconnecting global economies. All this is to be accomplished at the same time as the company's leader maintain and balance internal resources. On one hand, they need to focus some of their people on continually improving and growing the core business, and on the other, they must free others to break all the rules in the name of growth and innovation. By learning how to strike a successful balance by bringing to bear a new perspective on how growth efforts are situated in your company, how they measure and reward executing the present and building the future, and how they align behaviors to specific growth initiatives will companies find the available light at the end of their proverbial tunnel.

I would encourage readers to give some of their input to some of these questions and concerns. This global community forum is a perfect place in order to have this kind of discourse. We look forward to hearing from you.