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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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Trust. Why is it so fleeting? Trust determines your relationships with your most intimate peeps, with your work colleagues, with strangers, with everyone. Some of us have the propensity to trust too much, others too little. In a team environment, it is critical to trust your teammates. When a superstar athlete does not trust his [...]

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Absent of clear information, people generally presume the worst. Therefore, in time of change or crisis, it is good to over-communicate with facts, as well as contextual information. Unfortunately, it is during these times of change that leaders are buried in the day-to-day and communicate the least. Often, unsure of next steps or too wrapped [...]

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This video blog is during an Intrepid US office Friday BBQ. The reference topic is “Three Core Components to A Great Work Environment” from an old blog post.

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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 [...]

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As an entrepreneur of a startup company, I imagine myself as a general manager of a professional baseball team. My main job is putting together the RIGHT team. Many think an entrepreneur’s first task is to come up with a killer concept. Yet, it’s been said many times that  ”ideas” can be a dime a [...]

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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 [...]

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I was recently reminded of a good old saying, “Don’t blame the player, blame the game!” In business if the leaders set up an environment that measures short-term Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), the employees are going to react accordingly. The problem today is that our business world is full of copy cats and followers. Not [...]

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I just spent a week at our Ho Chi Minh office, aligning our company’s vision with the research team there. It was fun and rewarding. First of all, young people all around the world understand the potential marketing power hidden inside the walls of social media sites. Social media is intuitive to all people exposed [...]

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In my last blog post, I reminisced about the ARIS days. Now, maybe I can share some of the lessons learned during those times. It’s about the TEAM: No matter if you are MIT smart like Paul Song, it’s the collective ability of the leadership team, not one individual. You cannot scale without having a [...]

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