It’s a source of amazement to me that leaders believe that their managers automatically head in the right direction, like geese that go south for the winter. Very smart leaders do this to some degree of awareness, without evidence to support continued hope. I remember a client Bruce who led a medical technology company who […]
You don’t need to fire your people, you need to align your efforts Read More »
Not all growth is good growth. In fact, when the pressure of growing is too great, you make compromises that can come back to hurt you. Jeffrey ran a firm going through what he less-than-affectionately called, “growing pains.” At 16 FTEs, he didn’t want to hire a full-time HR manager, yet he needed the skillset
Associate editor of Entrepreneur magazine Kathleen Davis highlights the key findings of Mercer’s latest Global Performance Management Survey on employee performance evaluation. According to the survey, even though most leaders have a performance management system in place but more than half of them do not align performance ratings and compensation decisions. More than a thousand
How Well Are Managers Really Evaluating Their Employees? Read More »
John Maxwell is an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker and author. He was born in Garden City, Michigan in 1947 and followed his father into the ministry. He studied at Ohio Christian University and received a Master of Divinity degree at Azusa Pacific University. Maxwell is the author of more than 60 books primarily focusing
John Naisbitt is a an American author and speaker on the topic of future studies. He is most known for the global success of his book, Megatrends, in 1982. The book projected many important long term future economic trends of American society. His book was a New York Times #1 Best Seller. Naisbitt has spent
John Naisbitt on His Witty Observations and Predictions Read More »
Considered one of the most successful investors of the 20th century, Warren Buffett began investing by age 11. Born in 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett’s interests in finance began through visits to his father’s stock-brokerage shop and his jobs as a paperboy. A mathematical prodigy at a young age, Buffett went on to study at
Guy Kawasaki is known as one the Apple employees responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984. He is an author, speaker, investor and business advisor. He attended Standford University and only two weeks of law school at UC Davis. He learned “how to sell” from his first job at a jewelry company. After working at
Victor Ijidola explores how to discover our talents and get paid for it for Under 30 CEO magazine. Every one of us possesses a unique talent. Our talent gets a value when it is used and becomes money when others test it. So, we need to discover our talents at the right time. We can
