It’s amazing how many business owners and executives fail to understand the importance of determining where they want to go. Nothing prevents growth like a lack of clarity and vision for the future. Without this vision it’s difficult to know your priorities. ... More > >
Posted: Monday March 8th, 2010
How often have you resolved to achieve a goal, failed at your first or second attempt and quit? If you are as guilty of this as I am, then realize you failed to muster sufficient strategic discipline to accomplish your desire. You didn’t commit, persist, train, learn or execute at the proper level... More > >
Posted: Saturday March 6th, 2010
Interruptions, distractions, technology and the speed that things change. It seems today that we are living in an ADD [Attention Deficit Disorder] society. One of the biggest challenges with business today is the inability to stay focused and committed to your top priorities.... More > >
Posted: Friday March 5th, 2010
Recently I wrote [When You Know You Need to Make a People Change] about a client who hired and then quickly released a manager. In an effort to better understand why they’d made a mistake, the owner and one of the managers who participated in the hiring process did an autopsy on the decision to... More > >
Posted: Thursday March 4th, 2010
An employee who’s served the company for several years is a more difficult decision to release. My client felt that he had been covering for this person for some time and this individual was not reaching the goals that they’d set for the past two years. He acknowledged to me that he should have... More > >
Posted: Monday March 1st, 2010 Updated: 3/9/2010
It’s usually not an easy decision to release an employee. This past week three of my clients decided to release members of their staff. One employee had been with his business for over four years, while the other decisions were employees who just recently started. ... More > >
Posted: Saturday February 27th, 2010
A comment from the book The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great People to Fail made me recognize management is more responsible for subordinates’ failure than we may have admitted to in the past. “We would argue that the overwhelming majority of perceived weaker performers... More > >
Posted: Friday February 19th, 2010
