5 Tips for Working under a High-Maintenance High-Performer Boss
Working for a high-performer boss can be the most exhilarating experience of your life or it can be the most exasperating. It all depends on...
Time for 2017 Strategy Planning: 10 Elements of a Successful Strategy
In today’s business landscape, effective execution strategy can afford no fallbacks. An art that few have mastered, execution can hurdle a business into reaping extensive...
Missed your sales quota this year? How to turn it around in 2017!
As 2016 winds down and a new year quickly approaches, many sales leaders are coming to grips with the realization they won’t make their annual...
Don’t Let the Millennial Wave Drown Your Business
In today’s competitive business landscape, Millennials are needed now more than ever for their fresh ideas and innovative perspectives. The reality is that Millennials are...
8 Change Management Strategies When Moving the Cheese
Mergers, buy-outs, restructurings, oh my! These and many other disruptive changes are more and more commonplace in today’s business landscape, and can literally transform a...
Why Mergers & Acquisitions Fail
According to a recent Harvard Business Review report, the failure rate for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) falls between 70 percent and 90 percent. That’s a...
Sharpening Six Key Skills of Exceptional Managers
An often overlooked but fundamental aspect of being an exceptional manager is self-reflection and analysis of our own behaviors as leaders or mentors. This self-discovery...
Don’t Let Change Derail You: Tips To Keep Your Change Initiatives On Track
You’ve heard the expression, “the one thing you can count on is change.” Well, even “change” is changing these days. In years past, organizational change...
Say What? When You’re Talking And No One Is Listening
Contrary to popular belief, “talking” is not the same as “communicating.” Also contrary to popular belief is the idea that everyone sends and receives communication...
A 180-Degree Approach to the 360-Degree Assessment
360-degree assessments have been relied upon for years to provide holistic feedback to an individual on his or her performance, from multiple viewpoints. Many organizations...