A colleague of mine, Rich Lukesh, is an HR Professional who runs a business called Your Part Time HR Manager (www.yourparttimehrmanager.com) which is an On-Site and On-Call HR Services business. He writes an excellent blog with thoughtful suggestions for business owners and the HR Professionals who support them. One of his recent blog posts is called Stay Interviews: A Great Tool For Employee Retention – you can find it here.

So, you want to get to a specific location - let's say Grand Island, Nebraska. To get there in the timeliest fashion you will need a specific tool - a map. Nowadays this map may come in other forms (GPS, your phone, print out from mapquest.com, etc.), but the fact remains you still need a map to get there. You need a map because you have never been there and you don't know the way. Now, think about where you want to take your company. Have you been there before?

A few weeks ago, a friend sent us an article by New York Times business columnist Adam Bryant along with this question, “In your experience, do these six ‘success drivers’ make sense?”

I read a post on LinkedIn from Harvard Business School Professor Michael Wheeler, a behavioural economist (essentially a psychologist who tries to understand why we consistently do the seemingly irrational things we all do). You can see his post here. It describes an appalling situation – a British Marine was recently convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for killing a wounded and helpless enemy fighter in Afghanistan. Wheeler postulated that only a clear statement of a core belief, “Marines Don’t Do That,” might have been enough to stop the soldier from committing what most view as a crime.

Recently I was doing my favorite thing, I was in the room with one of my EOS client teams. This team of five has been on The Journey for a bit over a year with 6 Rock Setting experiences under their belts.