It’s that time again. You need to interview for an open position on your team, a position that you need filled yesterday! Giving advance consideration to the questions you will ask your candidates will go a long way in terms …
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If there’s one thing that’s pretty predictable in most organizations, it’s that the first quarter of the year each person is required to complete their performance review for the previous year. The good news is that both leaders and team …
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With South By Southwest, the annuals music, film and interactive expo on everyone’s minds, I thought it would be timely to discuss presentation skills. In the world of public speaking, there are two camps: The Organized Camp The first camp believes …
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When I remember new hire orientations of jobs past, I think of watching cheesy, outdated videos, completing a marathon of poorly photocopied forms, and being escorted to an empty cubicle three hours before the end of the business day, left …
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John Jantsch is one of the top strategic thinkers in business today. The author of the Duct Tape Marketing blog, John mostly focuses on marketing the small business, but I find myself applying his lessons to leadership in the …
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Over at the TNLT blog, Tim Elmore makes some interesting observations about the power struggling occurring in Egypt. He notes that most of the protesters are under the age of 30 and have successfully used the social networking medium to …
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As a leader, I’ve always struggled with the assertiveness line – how do you demonstrate enough assertiveness, and how do you avoid over-doing it? Bob Sutton, an organizational psychologist at Stanford, answers this question with the following tips from his …
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