5 Critical Things to Remember When Setting Your Yearly Goals It might sound weird to say it, but most people don’t set goals. Sure, we like to dream about what we want to accomplish, but research shows most people don’t actually set goals. ...
Work-Life Balance = Love 20% of Your Job
Everyone wants to talk about Work-Life Balance, but that might be impossible to achieve. Especially because Work-Life Balance means completely different things for different people. A company culture that might be perfectly balanced for me, might lead to burnout for someone else. Business leaders and their HR partners need to realize that work-life balance is not something that can be built by company wide initiatives. In fact, we need to stop trying to balance our work and life. Instead we need to be finding 20% of our job to love.
Create a Recession-Proof Strategy – Step #1 All Hands Goals
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. Research from Har ...
Forget Elon… We All Need a Healthy Performance Culture!
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...