Hiring someone to lead an organization, even with a terrific recruitiment/assessment process is a crapshoot (technical term). “You do everything right and your odds of a fit for the long term are 50/50,” said one of my CEO Group members to another. The process may include behavioral interviewing, serious (third party) reference checking and assessments, […]
Monday, March 4, 2013
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Some baseball teams have won the World Series playing “small-ball (hit and run, stealing bases, trying to get singles and doubles).” Others have played “big ball (stuffing the roster with hitters who can score with one swing of the bat and preferably with runners on base).”Any of them who has won has “left it all […]
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
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In my radio interview with Jim Blasingame (Small Business Advocate), I gave him three questions to ask when you are eager to get someone to change their mind and take action accordingly. I failed to give credit to the source, a speaker at the January worldwide Vistage International Conference: Daniel Pink. Pink spoke of getting […]
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
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Our conversation this morning with Jim Blasingame of Small Business Advocate focused on a problem he believes is endemic to small business: the owner’s inability (or unwillingness) to rise above fire drills and checkbook management to do the job called “CEO.” Jim believes the next four years will be as turbulent as the past five […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Thursday, March 21, 2013
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