A Mistaken Hire
How is your “batting average” on hiring? Well, I am a very highly qualified interviewer, but, I have made many bad hires. Yes, I preach good interviewing techniques, and yet I have managed to be wrong...
View ArticleHow Important Is It To Put People In The Right Job?
Far too many people end up in a job for which they are either not technically qualified for, or which they simply do not have the right behaviors, temperament or attitude. If you have ever been in a...
View ArticleWhat We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate.
How many times have you heard that? Many people use that expression to explain away their inability to explain failure. Others use it to excuse their own failure to lead, by in essence “blaming” the...
View ArticleTrue Passion Drives Behavior And Creates Winning Performance
I am so into passion, and you should be too. If you have any question about the power of passion – emotion – in the work place, just think about the last time you saw a total, shocking upset in sports....
View ArticlePerformance Day
Somebody suggested to me that every leader should establish a “Performance Day.” I actually thought this was a bizarre and almost insane idea, because I believe everyday should be a performance day. So...
View ArticleBegin Every Action with a Commitment to Integrity
Ok, now you are in for a moralizing, ethical principles lecture. I am a fanatic about the word integrity, and I mean fanatic. It is my most fervent belief that, “All human relationships rely on the...
View ArticleLeaders with the Best-Laid Plans
Most of us plan. Some better than others, but most of us plan. I am a planning obsessive. Yes, it may actually be too much; but I have this unbelievable role model in my life, so I could not be sloppy...
View ArticleThe Seven ( NO…Now it is Ten) Essential Steps to Leadership Success
If you have read my first book (You’re in Charge…What Now?), and then read Lead with Love, you will realize that the mnemonic I used in the two books was different. Well, there is no doubt that I added...
View ArticleI Hate Annual Performance Reviews
If you agree, you have a fellow traveler…ME! I have been the Chief Human Resources Officer twice in my career, and even while I was the CEO of several company’s I have never delivered on my threat to...
View ArticleSelf: Leaders Must Lead Themselves
How many times have you gotten up in the morning, gone to work, returned home, and gone to bed not having a clue as to what you did that day? Many of us have had that happen and then passed it off as...
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