It’s amazing how some business problems just keep coming around again and again. I looked at some of our published guidance from 25 years ago and saw an interesting piece on the disloyal attitude that so many employees had for their employers (often richly deserved, I...
As employers struggle to fill open positions in their companies during The Great Resignation, they find themselves competing with other employers to pay more for workers they want to keep or attract, often with no real sense of how to do this in a reasonably efficient...
In any company, large or small, the leaders set the standard for the way the company should be run and the way decisions should be made. And the company prospers. At least that’s the theory. In practice, not so much. In an attempt to get readers’ attention we’ve seen...
I picked a book out of my library today, written by a successful executive and former basketball player under John Wooden, the GOAT of college basketball coaches. He quoted some of Wooden’s favorite trade secret phrases – he apparently had dozens of them. I think some...
Management teams often disagree on key issues affecting the business, based on their own view of what’s working and what’s not. If a consensus is desired, that leaves it to the CEO to consider those views and set the best course of action. But what if it’s not clear...
