Leading People

How to Hire a Star

You’ll make a lot of decent hires, (and some bad ones)  but if you want to hire real stars here…

17 years ago

Bad Bosses

. This topic comes up all the time in one form or another, so I thought I would put some…

17 years ago

Your Team's Brand

. I was giving a talk this week to an audience of CIOs and one of the topics we discussed…

17 years ago

Permission and Imagination

. If you want to advance in your career you have to give yourself permission to not KNOW everything and…

17 years ago

Are you smarter than me?

. I hope so. I have been continually amazed at how many managers are threatened by having really smart, capable…

17 years ago

Leading & Managing: Top 10 Ideas

An interview with Jim Davis This week I had an opportunity to interview Jim Davis, CEO of Verified Person, technology…

17 years ago

Patty’s Top 11 Leadership Values

Recently, someone that used to work in my organization sent me this list. It is from 1999, when I took…

17 years ago

Customer Value and the P&L

This is a sequel to my last post on Customer Cost or Care.  Several people left comments, and I got even more…

17 years ago

Building Your Extra Team

I am a student of highly successful people.  They have many things in common, but the one I want to…

17 years ago

Serving or Selling?

Lately, I keep having conversations with people whose customers are telling them, “sorry, I have no budget”. These days, whether…

17 years ago