You can’t anticipate everything, but there are some risks to your business that you have to understand and anticipate. Recently, my boat lost its power just as I had hit the ocean coming out of Fort Lauderdale. I have three outboard engines and they all shut down. I was in pretty rough seas and according
I am working with an amazing young woman. Tina is a student and is starting a business that involves engaging university students to use their passions and create communities that adopt social causes and support them. I am learning so much by talking to her. We are working on a business plan and more importantly
John Corlette , the founder of the boarding school i went to, Aiglon College, got it right when he said: Our Lives Are What We Make of Them Absolutely essential is a positiveand loving relationship with all other people regardless of their origin, background or beliefs, and a positive and loving relationship with everything in
At your next staff meeting, look around the table. How much diversity is there? Don’t surround yourself with people just like you. Diversity equals better input, more perspective, better performance.
Motivation ambition, inspiration, action, actuation,catalyst, desire, disposition, drive, encouragement, fire, get up and go,hunger, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incitation, incitement, inclination, inducement, instigation, interest, kick, motive, persuasion, predetermination, predisposition, provocation, push, reason, right stuff, spur, stimulus, suggestion, wish Sure beats discouragement, demotivation, lethargy
You dedicate days to talent management, identifying top performers in your company, on your team. You identify and discuss the high-potentials in your organization. You know who your A-players are. You dedicate days to business planning, deciding on the key priorities and levers that will deliver planned results. Do you then take that extra step?
Awareness Definition: knowledge Synonyms: alertness, aliveness, appreciation, attention, attentiveness,cognizance, comprehension, consciousness, discernment, enlightenment, experience, familiarity, information, keenness, mindfulness, perception, realization, recognition, sensibility, sentience, understanding Beats the alternative! Antonyms: ignorance, insensitivity, unconsciousness
In a good talent management process, we take time out several times a year to evaluate our organization. We identify our top performers along dimensions of performance and potential and set in motion game-plans to create momentum with these top performers We identify employees that are struggling and discuss whether its an issue of performance
Jack Moore has taught me a lot of things over the years. He is a common sense guy and one of his themes is about taking ownership and putting hard work into everything you do. He tells a story of how he came back from the army and decided on what career to pursue. He
A member of a LinkedIn group, Jaroslav Berce started a conversation about a new way of meeting: A Walk in Nature. Its a great idea and one that I have used over the course of my career. Taking a walk with a colleague is a great idea for so many reasons(some of these came from