The Founders Mentality Authors - Chris Zook & James Allen Publication Date - May 2016 Links to Buy - US Amazon, Europe Amazon Video Preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLfK8U-ekY Why YOU should re ...
Layoffs Aren’t the Answer: Surviving a Recession
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 ...
How to Terminate an Employee for Poor Performance
“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 ...
4 Questions to Build Psychological Safety – HPC Toolkit
4 Questions that Build Psychological Safety Overview: Objective = Psychological Safety has been proven to be a key component of high performing teams. These 4 questions will help build psychological safety within your team members. Team S ...
Coat of Arms – HPC Toolkit
Coat of Arms Overview: Objective = To get to know your remote colleagues better, and understand what they can bring to the team Team Size = Any group size will work Time = 5 mins Difficulty = Medium Materials Required = Yes Preparatio ...
Improve Your Team’s Performance by 3,000% with Positive Feedback
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 ...
Why Your Company’s Culture Doesn’t Matter
“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 ...
There is NO Recipe for High Performers in a Startup
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 ...