One of the most difficult things to do, when driving for a hard performing culture, is to come to the realization that a person’s style can be so destructive, as to be toxic to the culture and mission of the company. Toxic Person How many times have we seen someone’s attitude and approach create
Be Selfish with your time. I am a member of YPO and am part of a forum of 7 of us CEOs that have been meeting once a month for a half day – for 10 years now. We discuss everything from business to family to personal. A lot of trust. Forum comes with a
In speaking to an Executive MBA class, I chose to do a career walk for them. I walked them through my career from first job out of college to today, highlighting not the jobs and positions I held, but the lessons I learned, the perspective I gained, the decisions I made and didn’t make, the
As we advance in our careers , we do so along certain exeprience tracks. My path to general management was largely along the tracks of sales and operations. Others rise through other tracks such as Finance or Customer Service. When we then assume broader general management responsibilities, it is only natural that we have less depth of
