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Leaders & Laggards August 2016
Leadership Leader Since Marillyn Hewson became CEO in 2013, Lockheed Martin’s market cap has more than doubled. I’ll say that again: Hewson has led a doubling of market capitalization for Lockheed Martin in less than three years. For the mathematically challenged,...
3 Key Strategies for Effective Training (of any kind)
Training is essential for success—always has been, always will be. But like everything else, not all training is created equally. Nor is there a one-size fits all when it comes to teaching employees. And that’s true for leadership - technical, interpersonal or...
Executive Teamwork–Playing well together in the C-suite
“Teamwork” has forever been a buzzword in our business world. It seems that the importance of having employees work as a team has been promoted in every available piece of management literature. Nevertheless, we at the top have routinely had a hard time “playing well...
Leaders & Laggards June 2016
Leadership Leader The usual place for a CEO who was fired for ethical reasons is in the Leadership Laggard section. We’ve made an exception this month to give a tip of our hat to the Board of Directors at Lending Club Corporation for the firing. Renaud Laplanche,...
De-mystifying Millennials
How many of you are growing weary of pundits and advice-givers obsessing over Millennials taking over the workplace? You can put your hands down. Me too. And we Boomers and Gen Xers aren’t the only ones. A very unscientific poll of 100% of the Millennials in my...
Where Is Everybody?
--The war for talent rages on… Don’t get caught with your pants down. That idiom has its origins in the Roman Emperor Caracalla, later known as Marcus Aurelius. He was known as one of the bad-ass Emperors somewhere before 200AD. Legend has it he was killed while...
Just Pay the Man…
Many people — mostly consultants, I know — make incentive-based compensation planning complex and overly difficult to create, implement, and manage. It simply does not need to be that way… Understanding incentive compensation is simple, and is largely human nature....
Checkin’ up on you…
So, let’s talk about references. Recently, I heard an HR generalist ask about references. They wanted to know: a) If they were limited to the references provided by a candidate, b) What to do if they could not contact someone because the candidate wouldn’t give...
It’s NOT The Economy, Stupid!
We speak so often about “the economy,” as if it’s this latent beast lurking about that no one can influence or control. And that beast, according to many, unilaterally influences success and failure in myriad ways through all walks of life and industry. Balderdash....
Confessions of a Recovering Perfectionist
Several years ago, my sister gave me a book about how to deal with the controlling perfectionists in our lives. She said I might benefit from an impartial description of -- get this -- me. Ouch. Okay, so I only had two standards: perfect and unacceptable. That didn’t...
The 5 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
-- and they’re non-negotiable, folks! (My most read article--I try to republish it at least once each year.) Leaders, new and old, sometimes lose sight of the most fundamental tenets of leadership. Here’s a reminder… I frequently tell executives that leadership –...
Leaders & Laggards April 2016
Leader International Paper (IP) CEO Mark Sutton is the real deal. A 30-year IP employee, he has managed to redirect this 117 year-old institution from simple paper (think office supplies) to packaging (think of all those Amazon boxes). Through skillful and strategic...
HR Leadership — Alchemy or Oxymoron??
First, my bias — I “grew up” in Human Resources, finishing my coprorate stint with successive roles at the VP/SVP HR level. So, I somewhat “know from which I speak…” The skills required of senior HR leadership of today and the future are so incredibly different than...
