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Fire the Slugs! And Other Great, No-Nonsense Ways to Retain Your Best People

July 29, 2011/in Management & Leadership, Organizational Accountability/by Jeff Kortes

There isn’t an organization anywhere that doesn’t have a problem with some type of personnel turnover problems. Depending on the study you look at, the impact of turnover ranges from three months of salary for a low level employee who leaves to as high as 400 percent of the annual salary of an upper-level person […]

Leadership Inspirations – Well Done

July 23, 2011/in Leadership Inspirations/by StrategyDriven

“Well done is so much better than well said.” Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) Founding Father of the United States of America

Recruitment Strategy

July 20, 2011/in Talent Management/by Bill Humbert

Many companies do not understand how to approach developing a recruitment strategy. The Human Resource Department is pulled in many directions and formal recruitment strategy development can be pushed back until it’s too late. Then the decision is made to ‘do the same thing we did last year.’ This is a very costly way of […]

How to Turn a Great Strategic Principle into Great Results

June 27, 2011/in Management & Leadership, Strategic Planning, Tactical Execution/by Linda Henman

Results start with a strong strategic principle – a shared objective about what the organization wants to accomplish. The strategic principle guides the company’s allocation of scarce resources – money, time, and talent. The strategic principle doesn’t merely aggregate a collection of objectives. Rather, this simple statement captures the thinking required to build a sustainable […]

The Transformational Leader: Compass to a New World, part 2

June 24, 2011/in Management & Leadership/by Mahesh Rao

Inspire A pure fact of transformational leadership is that you can accomplish only a small portion of the requisite forward movement on your own. Therefore, if you are to transform a company you must inspire others to follow you. What are the qualities of a leader that inspire others and impel them to follow? About […]

Is Your Team Failing Elegantly? Seven Leadership Mistakes That Wear Away at Your Company’s Will to Win

June 20, 2011/in Management & Leadership/by John Hamm

No one wants to lose. That’s true whether you’re talking about the Super Bowl, a friendly basketball game with the neighbors, or a footrace between eight-year-olds. Yes, the desire to win is embedded in the human psyche. So why is it that in the business world the ‘win or (almost) die trying’ principle seems to […]

The Transformational Leader: Compass to a New World, part 1

June 17, 2011/in Management & Leadership/by Mahesh Rao

Five centuries ago, conditions in Europe were perilous for many. Some muddled through bleak circumstances and took what came. Others had the imagination to see that a brighter future might await them in the New World. Leaders emerged whose navigational equipment, skills, and personal qualities gave others the courage to follow them across a sea […]

Seven Strategies for Managing Workplace Internet Usage

June 13, 2011/in Management & Leadership, Tactical Execution/by Keith Ross

As social media and personal email continue to be many individual’s primary forms of communications, it becomes harder to keep them focused at the workplace. An increase in usage of media-rich sites can place a considerable strain on limited bandwidth, which can hurt the performance of critical business tasks. The challenge is establishing a proper […]

How to Speak American: Building Brands in the New Heartland

June 10, 2011/in Marketing & Sales/by Paul Jankowski

“I think the Heartland is a nice place to raise children. People are nice, but they’re dumb, overweight and gullible. They wear tacky clothing and jewelry. They’re racist, unworldly and dumb.” Marketing executive in New York City If you are reading this column, you most likely play a role in building brands. You may even […]