“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody – is to trust them.”
–Ernest Hemingway
Trust and high performance
I was preparing for this month’s webinar on Increasing Team Performance and I came across the above quote. Read More
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Your Team's Brand & Reputation
Every month I do a webinar on a topic of business leadership.
These webinars are part of my Azzarello Group membership program.
This month’s webinar was on Team Brand & Reputation.
(Get invited to future webinars)
If you missed it, you can download the podcast! Read More
What your peers are reading…
I was quite excited when I realized that I could open my book RISE on my kindle and ask to “view popular highlights and marks”.
How cool is that?
As I browsed through what most people were highlighting, I got the idea to share them because there is an interesting theme here…
The Most Popular Highlights in RISE
Here they are…
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The 2 most important decisions an executive can make
WHO and WHY?
The first time I held a general management role I had a mentor share something with me I found to be pretty life changing.
He said, “You need to worry about WHO and WHY. Read More
Is email killing you?
Time to be strategic
Pretty much everyone I talk to says they would be better at their job if they had more time to think.
Also, when I ask, “What are your biggest time sinks?”, the vast majority of people say “email”. Read More
What every leader should ask their team
What you don’t know…
When I work with general managers to help them get their organizations executing better, the first thing I do is talk to their team.
…First, I talk to all their direct reports.
…Then, I also have some
1-1’s or focus groups with their mid-level managers and their employees. Read More
How Ruthless Priorities Drive Strategy
Every month I do a webinar on a topic of business leadership
as part of my membership program.
This month’s webinar was on Ruthless Priorities & Strategy.
(Get invited to future webinars)
If you missed it, you can download the podcast! Read More
5 reasons why you should BE a mentor
I am always talking about the importance of getting and using mentors. Today I want to talk about also being a mentor.
Who, me?
I remember when I first joined HP, I was asked to attend a meeting to discuss mentoring. Read More
Making Sense of Employee Performance Ranking
Everyone’s exceptional!
Question: “How do you deal with people and teams who are average performers but who rate themselves as exceptional?”
This question came up on our last Member coaching hour call and I decided to write about it.
The rating scale
Since the call I’ve dug out the performance rating definitions I created to add to whatever corporate ones existed. Read More
Do you have these 5 mentors?
Successful people get the most help
In my experience, mentors have a bigger impact on your success than virtually anything you can do outside of your own efforts.
Building your career without mentors is like climbing Mt. Everest without a guide and a Sherpa. Read More
