July 2009

Do Your People Know the Score?

July 31, 2009

How does your business keep score? Do you know you had a great year by revenue, stock price, EBITDA, dividends, Operating Free Cash Flow? If you don’ t know what metricĀ  your CEO or GM or VP is scored by, go find out. When you find out, make sure that your people know what the [...]

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The Importance of Communicating With Your People During Tough Times

July 26, 2009

Can your people count on you? What would they say about your openness and trustworthiness? Do you communicate with them openly and freely, or are you closed, reluctant, secretive? Do you talk to them but pacify them so they leave you alone? When times are tough and we are faced with frayed nerves and fear, [...]

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Reading List for Week Ending 7/24/09

July 25, 2009

Don’t let the short list this week fool you. These are all very good articles on leadership. Leadership NY Times interview with Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive of Adobe Systems: “If you set a common vision and then get really scary-smart people, they do things that amaze you.” I love his management philosophy and [...]

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Reading List for Week Ending 7/17/09

July 18, 2009

I read an awful lot of articles, blog posts, and books and thought you readers might find at least some of them useful. Each week I’ll post links to the ones that I found most interesting or useful. I’ve also created a category, Reading List, so you can easily find and review these lists at [...]

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The 4 C’s of Lasting Leadership

July 15, 2009

This is a guest post by Dana Peck. Dana serves as a professional learning consultant and is owner of Vantage Point Inc., a company that provides a full spectrum of learning, consulting and coaching solutions to assist organizations in achieving their goals aimed at excellent internal and external customer relations, sales and employee development. You [...]

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