Today we’re sharing insight from guest blogger Tom Henry, Mayor of Fort Wayne. We hope you enjoy Mayor Henry’s wisdom and perspective.

Engage, innovate, and perform. Those three words have helped serve as my mission and vision since becoming mayor in 2008. Engagement, innovation, and performance also drive my leadership staff and the future leaders we’re developing among our 1,800 City of Fort Wayne employees.

Today we’re sharing insight from guest blogger Ron Kitchens, Chief Executive Officer of the Southwest Michigan First Group of Companies. We hope you enjoy Ron’s wisdom and perspective.

With the rapid pace of change all around us these days and the constant drum beat of crisis, it is easy to fall into the Nike trap of management: Just Do It! Just do something! Just do anything! We all remember playing the childhood game, “Don’t Spill the Beans,” at least one point in our lives. The concept is easy: you compete against an opponent by carefully considering how to place beans on your half of a balanced bean pot in order to tip the pot towards your opponent so he gets all of those rotten beans.

The game of business is similar. A great organization knows how to place its “beans” in order to achieve success. When talking about customers or profit, we want the pot to tip in our direction. In regards to bad collection issues or supplier time delays, we want the pot to tip away.

Today we’re sharing insight from guest blogger Thomas Gryp, President & CEO of Notre Dame Federal Credit Union. We hope you enjoy Tom’s wisdom and perspective!

The world today seems obsessed with the topic of leadership. Specifically, what skills are necessary to rise through the business ranks to become a good, inspirational leader. The fact that there continues to be an insatiable appetite for material on this topic, strongly implies that the definitive answer to this riddle still remains elusively out of reach.

This year, I turn 60. Whether that labels me as being “over the hill” or “still in the prime of my life,” is a matter of perspective. What I know for sure however, is that the road I have already trodden is much longer than the road that still lies ahead. Throughout this journey, I have experienced several unconventional truths and momentary flashes of enlightenment about leadership not often discussed in traditional business literature. That is what I would like to share with you today.

Today we’re sharing insight from guest blogger Amish Shah, President & CEO of Kem Krest. We hope you enjoy Amish’s wisdom and perspective.

As a curious youngster my favorite word was “Why?” and the most disheartening response was “Because I said so!” While parents have every right to give direct commands without providing further details, (and frankly it would be exhausting if you had to debate every decision), an answer without context and understanding always leaves people unsettled and dejected.

“This is how you do it: You sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy and that hard.” – fiction writer Neil Gaiman

You’re reading my hectoblog. That’s means #100 in case you slept through the metric system lessons in school. A solid hundo. The Benjamin of blogs. My blogging century club.

Today we’re sharing insight from guest blogger Terry Bush, Director of HR Services at Kruggel Lawton CPAs. We hope you enjoy Terry’s wisdom and perspective.

I’ve been fortunate to be in the accounting profession my entire career thus far. It's incredibly rewarding and also a bit ironic. Rewarding in that I get to work with talented, motivated, enjoyable people every day, something for which I feel very lucky. Ironic in that my academic background is human resources, and I wasn't planning or expecting to join this industry.

Countless people have influenced my life, mostly for the good I’d like to think. Perhaps I’ve discarded memories of those whose impact wasn’t positive or hopefully I’ve forgiven them. At any rate, lately I've been thinking about some of the people who have had the most significant and positive impact on my career. These individuals have taught me so much. Taking the time to reflect on these relationships has been quite valuable.

Today we’re sharing insight from guest blogger Jim Spuller. Jim has 40+ years of sales, marketing, and leadership experience and now provides sales training and leadership as a Business Development Consultant for Gibson. We hope you enjoy his wisdom and perspective.

How important is connectivity and what are the benefits? When people speak of connectivity today one thinks of the internet via LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or the like, but the lost art of human connectivity is the subject of today’s blog. While I am clearly an advocate of technology, there is something missing with the lack of personal interaction.

Today we’re sharing insight from guest blogger Andrew Berlin, Chairman & CEO of Chicago-based Berlin Packaging, Chairman & Owner of the South Bend Cubs, and a Partner Owner of the Chicago Cubs. We hope you enjoy Andrew’s wisdom and perspective.

Like the message in Simon Sinek’s new book Together Is Better, we humans are so much better when we’re working together.

Today we’re sharing insight from guest blogger Steve Camilleri, Executive Director at the Center for the Homeless. We hope you enjoy Steve’s wisdom and perspective.

I'm scared to write this blog.

OK, there, I admitted it, I'm scared. But why? 

Because I am going to share my love for Justin Timberlake. And my love for him goes way back...and not just the uber-cool 2013 Suit and Tie Timberlake, but I'm talking about the 1995 N'Sync when-no-one-else-really-thought-he-was-cool-Timberlake!