Growing a company into a highly successful organization is incredibly demanding and full of risks. In fact, somewhere between 75% to 90% of all companies fail. It shouldn't be a surprise that research shows that companies with a strong idea, a good ...
Economies cannot grow forever, and that makes recessions a natural part of life. Companies that can only succeed during the “good” years, aren’t that strong of a company, and it shouldn't surprise us that those companies collapse. No where is this ...
“The recession has hit us hard, and we need to extend our burn rate. We need to lay off some of your team, so find some reasons we can let go of 2 people as underperformers.” While this is not word for word accurate, I know some leaders that were r ...
One of my favorite research studies occurred in the 1920s-30s at the Hawthorne Electric facility in Illinois. The researchers were investigating different methods to increase the productivity of the workers. First they increased the brightness of ...
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” (attributed to Peter Drucker) “Culture might eat strategy for breakfast, but teams make or break your culture” (me) Your company's culture is one of the most critical things that sets your comp ...
NO Recipe for Great Leadership People love to talk about and debate who were the greatest athletes of all time. As I love the NBA, I know I always got sucked into the hypotheticals on who was better. Would Kareem have been able to defend a ...
