Fred Engelfried

Lead with your weaknesses, not with your strengths. I learned that lesson many years ago in my first executive position but to this day must still remind myself of skills and disciplines to sharpen as well as new ones to acquire.

My first awareness came from...

It will never work!  It’s a waste of time!  You’re spinning your wheels! I already tried that!  They’ll never go along with that!

These are not exactly...

This is about open communications and the two biggest opportunities we have to disconnect as an organization; when we are overwhelmed by growth and when we are losing traction.  The first is...

We all have our own way of referring to intuition…’something tells me,’ ‘I just have this feeling,’ ‘my intuitive reaction is’ and on and on. Some of us listen to those voices, others...

Early in my career, without quite knowing what it was but certainly how it felt, I stressed out frequently.  When I would go to bed, it would be hard to fall asleep, my mind racing through frustrations of the day and often I would get up at 1 or 2 in the morning, have a...