Game playing at work, if done right, can turbocharge performance in the workplace. Business, after all, is a game. We compete with others to win profits, or to go on a quest to attain a grand result.
Leaders who do nothing about bad team members are the worst, according to Joe Montana. He would know, having been on Bill Walsh’s 49ers during a 10 year peak performance period.
I use “Snazzy Job Descriptions” when it is hard to find and attract ideal candidates for a position. It has only one goal: To get ideal candidates to contact the company.
How do you begin to find Millennials who are prepared to join into your company with the proper skills to carry your company on into the future?
I’m a big advocate of structured meetings, but some teams can feel choked by too much facilitation—as though they can’t talk informally, like they used to.
Lately it seems like just when a company has a winning strategy figured out, things change, and back to the drawing board they must go. This won’t change anytime soon: we are in a volatile world.
CFOs of growth companies mustn’t limit themselves to finance. In the absence of a strategic HR leader, they are the most likely partner of the CEO to provide HR leadership, both through strategy and by introducing critical processes.
The most effective way to interview with the CEO for a C Suite position isn’t about the questions the CEO will ask, nor how effectively the candidate prepares her answers. The best approach is a collaborative conversation.
How big can a firm grow without leadership infrastructure? When is the right time to move past free-form entrepreneurialism?
CEOs and CFOs must deliver a carefully crafted duet when they communicate to the team, balancing optimistic messages and cautionary ones.
Robert Sher is founding principal of CEO to CEO, a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the leadership infrastructure of midsized companies seeking to accelerate their performance. He was chief executive of Bentley Publishing Group from 1984 to 2006 and steered the firm to become a leading player in its industry (decorative art publishing).