What can a corporate leader or entrepreneur learn from professional athletes? If you really study their work ethic and analyze their approach to the tasks that lie before them, they share many similar traits to a successful and engaging leader. Athletes pour their heart and soul into their work. They have taken risks to achieve […]
Whether in our professional or personal lives, we have all gotten frustrated dealing with an employee who just doesn’t seem to care. We’ve all experienced that blood-boiling feeling when interacting with that seemingly less-than-competent person who either cannot nor will not do what is expected of them. We get angry at them, but is it […]
When it comes to creative problem-solving in a business setting, the solution often is as simple as looking at things from a completely different perspective. But, this is easier said than done. Leaders tend to be so engrossed in the day-to-day aspects of their position, or overly involved in the specific situation at hand that […]
How do you become a better, more engaged leader? How do you fix the problems in your company when the business seems stuck? Do you want to gain a new perspective into your own company? Then start having real conversations with your employees at all levels. Today. You’ve probably seen the popular television show “Undercover […]
Yahoo, a twenty-one-year-old web pioneer, was acquired recently by Verizon for $4.8 billion. Once valued at more than $125 billion at the height of the dotcom boom, it passed on opportunities to buy Facebook, YouTube and Skype. The company has always suffered from identity confusion. It was never sure whether its business was search, media, email […]
As I was walking back from the gym one morning just before 7AM, I passed by the local boutique food store and noticed the manager standing in the middle of a circle, with all of her staff around her. It looked like every employee was present. I had noticed her doing this several times before […]
One of the elements of a truly engaged workplace is the asking of questions. The fact is that most people are afraid to ask questions; whatever natural curiosity we had as children tends to get discouraged in most large organizations. Leaders assume following the status quo is the right way to go and are not […]
If you were able to covertly drop into most companies, almost every day you could see executives who have no idea what is happening in their distribution centers, managers who had no idea they were losing customers until it was too late or global corporations who have fallen backward in their industry for no apparent […]
Over the course of my career, I’ve had the good fortune to be exposed to a very wide range of business situations. I’ve led companies both big and small, in growth mode and in turn-around situations, public companies and those owned by private equity sponsors. I have also had to opportunity to advise those who […]
