Management teams say a lot about any company. Effective leaders surround themselves with great people. Such leaders understand their weaknesses and know how to augment those inadequacies by hiring accordingly. Real leaders are not afraid to hire people who will challenge them intellectually. An effective CEO also knows when someone on his/her management team will [...]
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Making Excuses for Your Management Team?
Posted in business, entrepreneur, management, tagged business, company building, executive, leadership, management on July 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Three Core Components to a Great Work Environment
Posted in business, tagged business, employees, Human resource, management, work culture, work environment, work perosnality on March 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
There are three core components to creating an attractive and compelling work environment. The first and most critical component is business success and stability. Many see being “too” focused on financial numbers as somehow not complementary with creating a great work environment. It is only through financial stability that a company can protect its work [...]
Globalizing Business Perspective
Posted in business, tagged business, globalization, international business, small business on February 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Bi-lingual people usually learn a third or fourth language easier than an adult just learning a second language. Being raised in a bi-lingual family, I know this to be true. The fact that my “words” interpreting reality can be formed from two different language perspectives is a huge advantage in learning yet another language. One [...]
Understanding the Stair Step Pattern Of Company Growth
Posted in business, entrepreneur, tagged business, business growth, company building, entrepreneurship, hockey stick growth, small business, startup on January 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Company building is a unique experience. An entrepreneur can experience a huge gyrations of emotions in any given day: ‘Wow, we’re going to do this!’ ’Oh, we’re going to crash and burn’. ’My employees hate me’. ’My customers love me’… With experience, however, you come to expect these twists and turns. In fact, you kind [...]
Life A Continuous String of Events of People Impacting People
Posted in People, business, tagged business, contacts, networking on November 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Looking back on one’s life, you quickly realize that it was other people who brought you to your current place in life. The way of the world is meeting people through other people. You impact people’s lives and people impact yours — sometimes even in ways you don’t realize. Here’s one personal string of events [...]
Focusing Too Much on Managing Up Can Bring You Down
Posted in business, management, tagged business, leadership, management on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some people are viewed as being better at managing “up” than managing “down”? To me, this is a contradiction. On a short-term basis, executives may be impressed with a manager “managing” up to them and their priorities. Ultimately, however, all executives are looking for outstanding output from their staffs. By focusing too much on managing [...]
Simple Risk-Aversion Test to See if You can Make it as an Entrepreneur
Posted in business, entrepreneur, tagged business, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, risk taking, risk-averse, startup on November 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Often I meet people who tell me about their dreams to start their own business. They don’t want to work for the man all their lives. They ask me what it takes to start your own business. It’s a difficult question to answer because there are so many elements to being an entrepreneur. First, you [...]
A New Start in a Time of Opportunity, Risks
Posted in business, entrepreneur, tagged Ascentium, ZeroDash1, business, entrepreneurship on June 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So, it begins anew for me once again. Last Friday was my last day with Ascentium. Today is my first day working on what I consider my sixth potential venture. My experience at Ascentium was wonderful for the most part. Ascentium bought my company, ZeroDash1, in March of last year (2008). We were excited about [...]
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