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Leaders & Laggards – July 2017
Leadership Leader Mehran Assadi, CEO of National Life Group Mehran Assadi is an island in shark-infested waters. Assadi leads National Life Group, the fastest growing life insurance company in the country over the last decade with, according to Scott Mautz’s article...
Some Coaching Advice – Gratis
I coach several individuals; most at a fairly senior level, some in mid-management. Some are remedial efforts; in other words, we're trying to get an otherwise-valuable employee to step it up a bit in performance. These are challenging, but it's positively great to...
Leadership and Retention: Keeping Top Performers
It's not just the money! We are staring down the barrel of impending poaching opportunities at a time when our most valuable employees are simply “tired.” What to do? 1. Anybody who tells you money doesn’t matter... they’ll lie about other things as well. Money isn’t...
Performance Management Simplified
It’s not about the paper… Someone recently asked me why the Performance Management process seems so painful in many organizations. They further questioned how lower-level managers could possibly implement effective performance management if the senior executive(s) are...
Talent Management — Dogs!!
In the beginning, there were standards for a job. And the standards were so high, that none could abide them. And the standards were lowered… Terrible way to begin the Good Book of Talent Management, don’t you think? We start out knowing the sort of candidate/employee...
Success According to Karl
The broader impact of performance management… The ability to make good decisions regarding people represents one of the last reliable sources of competitive advantage, since very few organizations are any good at it.” — Peter Drucker Two senior managers are competing...
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Does Leadership Development
Leadership development that works This is always an interesting and pertinent topic to me, as the beginning stages – creation, if you will – of leadership development efforts are where success/failure is determined. Implementation is simple, as is (generally)...
Storm’s a-coming… time to LEAD
What can we learn from leaders during disaster response efforts?? A few years ago, Houston, Galveston, and surrounding areas were hit head-on with a Category 2 hurricane; the surge and size of the storm more closely rivaled a Category 4. It was a big deal....
June 2017 Leaders & Laggards
Leader Benno Dorer, CEO of The Clorox Company Benno Dorer is a Rockstar. He was recently recognized as the highest-rated CEO by Glassdoor in its 2017 Employees' Choice Awards, surpassing Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg in the top 10 list....
Perception trumps reality. Every time.
Okay we’ve all heard the little idioms, like “perception is reality to those who perceive,” or even just “perception is reality.” My personal favorite is “my perception is my reality.” What the hell does all that mean? Well for you, leaders, it means that how people...
Delegate Your Way Out of the Trenches!
Leaders have got to get better at delegating. Intentional leadership takes time, and there are already plenty of demands on the 24 hours we have. Our jobs certainly aren’t getting easier, and I’m betting that most of your day isn’t consumed by core leadership tasks...
Uber is Dead! Long Live Uber!
Travis Kalanick is a jerk. Got it. His behavior was often juvenile, sometimes egregiously so. Got it. He got whacked because of that harassing and intimidating behavior. I got it—he’s a tool. But what does all that mean? I’m reading all these articles and newly-minted...
Stop Managing Your Talent
You’re making them leave! Finding and keeping talented employees is at or near the top of nearly every senior leadership survey I’ve seen lately. Seems like the time is right for the talent management gurus to show off their stuff and make a bundle – which would be a...
