Do you have a fixed or a growth mindset?
According to Carol Dweck, author of Mindset, “Individuals who believe their talents can be developed (through hard work, good strategies, and input from others) have a growth mindset. They tend to achieve
Are you being intentional about meetings?
Do your people complain that there are too many meetings in your organization and that not enough gets done in them? Perhaps you have a weekly management meeting. Why is it weekly?
How do you lead?
At the APICS Symposium on April 30th, the panelists were asked ”How do you lead?” Dr. Chris Gopel, executive director at the Drucker Center for Supply Chain & Logistics, said: Lead by:
What “style” are you speaking?
How often do your eyes glaze over when someone you work with starts speaking to you? Do you struggle to understand what their message is? Or do you ask them to get to the point or
How prepared are you for the unexpected?
A major hurricane ripped across the US political landscape when the news came out yesterday afternoon that Justice Scalia had died in his sleep. The court does not stop functioning. They have many important cases to hear this term. A split and unpredictable court has become more so. So, everyone is now rethinking the possible […]
Who has a story you can learn from?
Our guide Chi in Vietnam was showing us Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum. He said that Ho asked to be cremated since
Are you good at hiring?
How important is it to you to have great people on your team? Every business executive has a horror story of a bad hire and how much it cost the company. Not to mention
Are you on time? Do you care?
The traffic gods were with me and I arrived 10 minutes early to a reception. I walked in to find 2 other participants already there
What can’t you test for?
There have been many articles lately about tests for hiring that sort candidates according to personality traits, sales ability, attention to detail, leadership style and much more. So, what can’t we test for?
Are you an Idea Monkey or a Ringleader? Pick one.
At the Vistage Executive Summit in Los Angeles, speaker Mike Maddock asked us to identify which we were. When I turned to a couple of CEO’s I knew well and