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
Do you hold 1-2-1’s with all your direct reports?
You probably think you communicate regularly and effectively with all your direct reports. What would they say? My sense from working with a lot of team members just below the CEO is that they
Ready for a merger?
Getting married after being single for 20 years has had me thinking a lot about mergers. The romantic part is quite lovely, and I could write many blogs about the non-business side. And, maybe I will
Who works for a company when the workday never ends?
The simple answer may be all of us. It may be all of us at some time in our lives. It may be that some of us can’t
Who is Amazon?
All the controversy this week about how Amazon treats its people has raised a lot of questions about corporate culture. Comparisons are being made between what is accepted in Silicon Valley culture or start-up culture versus retail culture. Amazon has disrupted more businesses than almost any other company. Think bookstores. All gone. Thank you Amazon. […]