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The BizPie Blog gives expert advice for executives to help make better decisions, improve your team, and balance professional & personal life.
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
Is it time for baby boomers to quit?
In my work with direct reports to CEO’s and whole corporate teams, I’m seeing a number of really amazing and competent millennials beginning to step
Do we let fear run us?
The incident in San Bernardino has been horrible for the whole Southern California community as well as the nation. The innocent victims, including the injured,
Have you created your plan for 2016?
I don’t mean to rush 2015 out the door, but the holiday decorations are going up and you are already trying to close just a
Is Thanksgiving your favorite holiday, too?
Yes! Thanksgiving is coming!!!! I love Thanksgiving. No presents. No religious origin that gets complicated in my multi-religious family. ‘Tis a veritable toast to gluttony
The Globalization of Devastation
When I was a kid, my Mother would tell me to eat my dinner-that there were starving children in Biafra.
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 are you willing to pay for?
Every company owner or President that I work with has a quirk. There is something that they just refuse
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
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
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
Are you getting the results you want?
If your style in business is to ask for forgiveness rather than ask for permission, or you have a boss like that –listen up!
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