Where are you getting new people for your company?
One of my Vistage members has hired interns for his company-10 in the last 9 months. How is that for new people for his company?
Do you hate meetings, too?-part two
You’ve been complaining all your adult life about meetings. SO, what can you do about it?
Do you hate meetings, too?
People feel about meetings the way they feel about traffic in LA. You have to get through them to get to the important places like getting home, or getting to work.
Why is micromanaging so attractive? How do we stop it?
What trigger snaps you into details like a hound dog after a rabbit?
Want to be more productive? Go on vacation.
People say the most productive day in the year is the one just before you go on vacation. You fly around checking off tasks that MUST be completed.
How do you measure progress towards success?
Could it be possible that you measure progress towards success differently than many of the people in your organization?
If you want to change the world, start by making your bed.
As a student of leadership, I have read and reread Admiral William H. McRaven’s Commencement remarks to UT Austin. Admiral McRaven has been a navy seal for 35 years. He is the ninth commander of US Special Forces. The first of 10 points he makes about how to change the world is to make your bed […]
Are you the manager from hell*?
A recent Gallop Study showed that 20% of employees are ACTIVELY disengaged at work. Are you the cause? Management actions are a common reason for employee disengagement. How might you undermine the work of your associates?
Can we take back our lives from this email stranglehold?
Really, is that too much to ask? What if you didn’t get any new emails 30 minutes after the close of business hours and they didn’t start up again until 30 minutes before business hours began tomorrow morning? What if you actually had “business hours”-not 24/7/52?
Using the Internal Conversation to Coach Your Team
As a Vistage coach, I was trained to write down my thoughts as I listened and questioned my members to go deeper. Some of those thoughts were judgments, some were wonderings, and some were questions.