Recruiting the Best Team
Don’t settle for hiring the first qualified people who apply. Try treating your job candidates like customers and take time to generate a large candidate pool. This will increase your chances of building a great team.
Posts Tagged ‘interpersonal acumen’
When is the Right Time to Come Clean?
All businesses encounter problems from time to time. But when really bad news is staring you in the face, how much should you share and when?
Making a Good First Impression
Meeting with a firm for the first time, I had trouble getting into their offices – the front door was locked and there was no bell. CEOs are reminded to check up on what visitors feel and perceive when they encounter the firm for the first time.
The Human Side of Mergers and Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions have a developed a reputation for being brutal, callous and indifferent about the people involved. But it doesn’t have to be that way. A good outcome, for both parties, requires both sides to treat each other well.
The Secret Plan: Listen, Think and Learn
Too often we favor our own ideas, to our detriment. Here’s my secret plan: ask, listen and learn as a first step in most things. But my listen and learn secret plan can be difficult to follow.
Five Reasons to Extend Your Hand
There are major benefits in getting to know your competitors on a personal level. Leave your preconceptions at the door and engage with them as people. You have little to lose and a great deal to gain.
Defusing the Myths about China
Doing business in Asia is unique, and those newer to this environment should heed some key principles. On a recent trip to China, I had a chance to put these key ideas into practice.
Managing Young Employees Yields Insights for All – LeMans Karting
Take a troubled business with young, troubled employees, and turn it around by deeply engaging and tapping the potential in each employee. CEO Rick Gaan of LeMans Karting and his wife June show how genuine concern for your employees is good for business.
Weak, Shortsighted or Out of Control: Why CEOs Don’t Insist on Great Teams
Why don’t CEOs insist on great top teams in their own organizations? Are they too tolerant of failure and/or poor performance? A talk to the Alliance of Chief Executives by CEO Jim Pouliot of CSAA inspired this exploration of why CEOs continually struggle with the issue, and what they can do about it.
Forming Productive Friendships in Asia – Interpacific Management Group
As Dave Seldon, CEO of Interpacific Management Group, found, doing business in Asia is entirely different, based on the firm foundation of friendship. But this doesn’t happen over the internet or telephone; it’s a long process involving personal contact.
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).