You’ll make a lot of decent hires, (and some bad ones) but if you want to hire real stars here is how to find them.
Experience is the first thing we tend to look for but is never the primary indicator of stardom. Read More
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This topic comes up all the time in one form or another, so I thought I would put some structure around it, and give you some ideas, if you are dealing with a bad boss.
There are 4 categories of bad bosses
I’ve listed them in order of how
personally damaging they are to work for:
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I was giving a talk this week to an
audience of CIOs and one of the topics
we discussed was choosing the level of
service you want your team to deliver,
and how to do specific things on purpose
to make sure your team is consistently
delivering that service. Read More
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If you want to advance in your career you
have to give yourself permission to not
KNOW everything and not DO everything.
And you need the imagination to do
more of what the business requires than
your job entails.
As I have been preparing for our next
monthly webinar on Avoiding Career Hazards,
I stepped back to think about what really
holds people back in their careers. Read More
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I hope so.
I have been continually amazed at how many managers are threatened by having really smart, capable people working for them. I seem to be encountering this quite regularly these days when more people are more nervous in general. Read More
An interview with Jim Davis
This week I had an opportunity to interview
Jim Davis, CEO of Verified Person,
technology industry veteran, and a
personal hero and mentor of mine,
on my monthy member webinar.
Download a Podcast of this Interview
Download a Podcast of the Coaching Hour with Jim Davis and me
TOP 10 IDEAS
JIM DAVIS SHARED WITH US
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Recently, someone that used to work
in my organization sent me this list.
It is from 1999, when I took the helm of
the HP OpenView software business,
which was about a one billion dollar
business at the time. Read More
This is a sequel to my last post on
Customer Cost or Care.
Several people left comments, and I got even more email with opinions and questions about the real value of keeping or losing a customer, and the real cost, and P&L impact of providing care. Read More
I am a student of highly successful people. They have many things in common, but the one I want to talk about today is how successful people always seem to have lots of people working for them — who don’t work for them! Read More
Lately, I keep having conversations with people whose customers are telling them, “sorry,
I have no budget”.
These days, whether or not people have money, they are reluctant to spend it. They feel like they shouldn’t, (becasue no one else is) or they are not in the mood to. Read More
