make big ideas happen

How Do You Make Your Big Ideas Really Happen?

Posted May 16th, 2013 in Business Smarts, Leadership Smarts, Success & Blooper Stories | 2 Comments »

Like many ambitious, forward thinking leaders, you have an idea and want to make it happen. It could getting a project, a big contract or even a company off the ground. So I asked a group of business leaders who have a track record of success this question:  What lessons can you share with us [...]

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rewarding the right people

Are You Rewarding The Right People?

Posted May 9th, 2013 in Business Smarts, Leadership Smarts, Success & Blooper Stories, Talent Smarts, Uncategorized | No Comments »

As a manager or business owner, you know it’s important to recognize contributions individual team members make toward the success of the team. You might even find it easy to identify and reward individual performance toward specific individual goals. However, many times in our efforts to recognize and reward successes, we may overlook “behind the [...]

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who's in charge of your detiny

Who Controls Your Destiny?

Posted May 7th, 2013 in Inspiration & Humor, Leadership Smarts, Success & Blooper Stories | No Comments »

“My boss is driving me crazy. I can’t seem to get ahead. My team doesn’t work hard enough. My service is better than there’s but they’re getting more customers.” These are all too familiar things I hear in coaching leaders and business owners.  What do all of these have in common? It’s like someone or something  out [...]

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hiring batting average

What’s Your Hiring Batting Average?

Posted April 30th, 2013 in Business Smarts, Performance & Skill Boosters, Talent Smarts | No Comments »

“By and large, executives make poor hiring decision. By all accounts, their batting average is no better than .333. That means one-third of such decisions turn out right, one-third minimally effective and one-third outright failures. In no other area of management would we put up with such miserable performance” – Peter Drucker, leadership icon. According [...]

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people trust your leadership

Do Your People Follow Your Leadership?

Posted April 23rd, 2013 in Leadership Smarts, Performance & Skill Boosters, Success & Blooper Stories | No Comments »

People follow the leader first and the leader’s vision second. It doesn’t matter what the vision is. If the leader is not someone whom people will follow, the vision will never be realized. As a leader, do your people trust you enough to follow you? This was a question I posed to a group of [...]

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