“No News is Good News” is NOT Good Management
If you have a team of stars, it’s likely you spend an inordinate amount of time with your difficult employee and, in the process, ignore your high performers. Keeping tabs on an employee who [...]
Don’t Let the Squeaky Wheel Get the Grease
Consistently weak performers drain your time, poison company culture, and demotivate strong players. Don’t neglect top talent. They need—and deserve—just as much time and attention as employees [...]
Avoiding Clichés Like the Plague
At the pace of today’s communication, we probably couldn’t survive without shortcuts in the way we characterize feelings and situations. It doesn’t take much for those shortcuts to turn into [...]
To Be a Great Leader, Encourage Great People
This advice is attributed to Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric, described as one of the greatest business leaders and innovators of all time. It suggests that business [...]
Trust: 20 Steps to Build It
Trust is the foundation upon which all relationships and interactions are built. Touchy-feely? Not at all!
Coaching Makes Business $ense
Maybe you know this story: A BV practice brings in a seasoned, technically sound lateral hire to ultimately replace someone now in a leadership role and a year later decides “it’s not working [...]
Do Your Employees Trust You?
A recent Deloitte survey found that 48 percent of U.S. workers plan to look for a new job once the economy improves. Why? One reason could be that 50 percent of workers no longer trust their [...]
“Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People”
Most practices have them. Talent who habitually punch above their weight. Maybe you have several. Maybe only a handful.
“Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down”
If you think your practice has already been hurt by the downturn, imagine what would happen if you lost your best talent. Just because layoffs have expanded the universe of available BV [...]
