Organizational Growth & Performance

How to evaluate an executive’s performance.

How to evaluate an executive’s performance.

I’m often asked, “How do we evaluate our executive’s performance?” It’s usually board directors who ask me this. But there…

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Exit Strategies for Businesses

Dead Mice, My Garage, and Your Business: Things that Should be Cleaned up 

I recently cleaned and organized a corner of my garage. The level of pride and satisfaction that this generates is…

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Executive Succession

The Truth Will Set You Free. But Before it Will, You Have to do This

The truth will set you free. But you have to accept it first. The best leaders look reality straight in…

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Why I Care About Leadership

Leadership Motivation When I was young, I had ideas about changing the world. So, I set out to do that….

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Why a Vacation is One of the Most Responsible Actions a Leader Can Take

“Take a vacation.” This is my favorite advice to give to the owners or executives who are my clients. They…

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What Do I Do if My Company is Outgrowing a Loyal Employee?

What To do When Your Company is Growing Faster than Your Team Growing a company is exciting. But it also…

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It’s Hard Enough to Hire When Times are Good. How to Prepare to Sail Through Less-than-Ideal Staffing Challenges

If You Do this One Thing Well, You’ll Own Your Market For the foreseeable future companies that are able to…

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Planned Succession Outline

How to Plan for Executive Succession In the United States, approximately 60% of all organizations are headed up by Baby…

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The Subtle Poison: Insidious Corruption in Leadership

Leadership Corruption: Two true stories Nighttime in Nairobi. The policeman who had pulled me over let his rifle barrel drift…

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Two Leadership Maxims that Should Change Your Leadership Forever

Two leadership maxims that will transform how you lead and manage: You will only manage others as well as you…

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