Your Job
Your job description is not a life sentence – you can change it. You need to change it.
If you want to make more progress in your career, (and suffer less along the way), you need to rethink how you work. Read More
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Where is the meaning?
In a struggling economy, companies are asking employees to go without raises and bonuses.
Why humans work
Do your employees get angry and check out? Or do they keep working hard with little to no cash incentive to do so?
The good news is that humans work for more reasons than money — and money is not even at the top of the list. Read More
Packaging Yourself (10 Ideas)
10 IDEAS FROM THE WEBINAR
PACKAGING & POSITIONING YOURSELF
Have the Right Strategy
1. You, the Product. You will come across as much more powerful and compelling if you develop your approach to present yourself. Read More
Uncertainty is Expensive
Hidden Expense…
Uncertainty is a huge hidden expense in your business.
There’s the obvious expense of work not getting done — as uncertainty causes people waiting for decisions instead of working.
But the more damaging and expensive side of uncertainty is the work that gets done the wrong way. Read More
Waiting this one out…
I have been writing a lot recently about the work I do in helping companies identify and deal with execution risks.
Wait it out…
One of the biggest issues companies are facing today is that people are simply not in the game. Read More
Avoid these 6 Execution Risks
The source of execution risk
A big part of your job as a leader is to understand and deal with the execution risks within your own organization.
There are lots of drivers of business risk that have to do with external forces…
But execution risk in your organization comes from your people not working the way the business needs them to be working — which you can impact. Read More
Build Enduring Value: 10 Ideas
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10 Ideas from the Webinar:
BUILD ENDURING VALUE
An Interview with Bob Evans:
Don’t miss this one!
Bob was highly entertaining and shared really important ideas about what companies get right and wrong in creating real value for their customers and business. Read More
Volcanic ash and me
Hi Everyone,
Well who would have thought that a volcano in Iceland would prevent me from speaking at two events in New York City next week.
Flights are delayed at least 4 days. I am stuck in Europe.
More precisely I am stuck in Florence with my sister, which admittedly, is not major suffering as far as travel disasters go. Read More
Defending your honor (and your budget)
How do you build enough confidence in what you are doing…
…with the people who vote on your career and approve your budget…
…when they will never fully understand the value everything you do?
I am getting ready to speak at two events in New York City next week. Read More
No one cares how hard you work
Goals
No one cares how hard you work.
… So make sure you are getting somewhere.
My goal for this blog is to provide useful insights and practical ideas so you can:
Step up the value and relevance of your work to have a bigger impact on the business, and a better career. Read More
