How do you help your team sharpen the saw?
For those of us who love learning and growing this was a super week for Vistage in Los Angeles. We had our Vistage Executive Summit with great talks and break-out sessions for our Vistage members. For one of my Vistage groups,
How many languages do you speak?
Living here in California, 40% of the people you run into speak another language besides English. (2007 census data). In fact, as of the 2000 census there were 207 languages spoken here. What do all those folks have to teach the rest of us? Well, if you remember studying another language in your past, […]
What do you want new employees to know and when do you tell them
The question of how you make sure an important new hire succeeds began an interesting discussion with some Vistage members last week. Even if the new hire is a seasoned professional
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