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Don’t Be a Mediocre Manager
Photo Credit: Forbes.com Throughout the 40 years I worked in the private sector and the past six years I've been working as a full-time managerial coach, I've engaged with very few “natural managers.” By “natural” I mean men and women who seem to effortlessly get the...
read more3 Mistakes Every Startup Makes
I've had the opportunity to work with multiple startups over the years and have just published my latest article on Forbes.com summarizing some things I've learned from the perspective of a coach. Below is an excerpt from that article with a link to the full one on...
read moreWhen A Step Back Can Move Innovation Forward
My latest article on Forbes talks about how coaches can help managers take a step back to solve difficult problems. Here is a snippet from the article with a link to the rest on Forbes.com. Photo Credit: Forbes.com I recently finished reading former U.S. Attorney for...
read moreHow Financially Literate are Your Managers?
I had another opportunity to write for Forbes.com, this time about financial literacy. Below is an excerpt from my post -- please be sure to repost it on LinkedIn if you found it helpful. Thank you....
read moreSUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Coaching works at every level Executive summary: Coaching in sports, and virtually every other area of life, results in better outcomes. In business coaching has the potential to create sustainable competitive advantage. Yet it is not widely practiced. This must...
read moreTECHNOLOGY HIT ME IN THE HEAD
Executive Summary: The idea that technology will disintermediate many jobs, even companies, is not new. What is new is the realization that your average manager, even senior manager, has little or no insight into which new technology will overtake them and/or their...
read moreWE’RE NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER
Executive Summary: Within two years 25% of the workforce will be aged 55 or older. Unless we accept the fact that older workers have something to contribute, we will see the skill shortage, already upon us, widen and our place as the dominant economy vanish. When I...
read moreBUZZWORDS: TRANSFORMATION
Executive Summary: Top down transformation does not work. Bottoms up transformation within the context of clearly defined objectives does work. It seems that nearly every day a new buzzword enters the language of business. Woman are urged to “Lean In”. Management no...
read moreFour questions to be answered before the decision to create/replace a position is made.
As a Human Resource Director for nearly four decades, much of which was spent recruiting mid and upper level managers and individual contributors, I believe I learned something about hiring and how best to go about it. Some of what is below my go against the grain of...
read moreHave We Taken the “Human” out of Human Resources?
A couple of years ago I took a summer to learn as much as I could about “analytics” and especially about “predictive analytics”. I believed that such knowledge would improve the work of Human Resource Departments by making them more efficient and effective. I was so...
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