Fire Well: How To Avoid Wrongful Termination And Employment Discrimination Lawsuits
Become a pro at firing executives. You won’t brag about it at parties, but your company will be stronger and wealthier for it!
Posts Tagged ‘management fundamentals’
Comcast’s PR Nightmare Can Befall Midsized Companies: Your Company Could Be Next
Be afraid! Many growing midsized companies are at risk for a PR disaster like Comcast’s if they underinvest in operations. Last-minute rush-job hiring, poor training and the pressure of a growing company can combine into operational meltdowns.
Never Be Confused About Who’s on First, What’s on Second
One of the quickest ways to tangle up the execution of a project is to be uncertain about who is responsible for what, who has sign off authority, who must be consulted, and who should be informed.
Why Midsized Firms Should Be Raising Their Game With Gamification
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.
How A Volatile World Raises The Leadership Ante For Midsized Companies
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.
How to Improve Your Business by Instituting a Simple 1-On-1 Meeting
I advise all my clients to follow this key success discipline that great managers routinely practice: They schedule a regular weekly 1 on 1 meeting with each of their direct reports.
Lapsed Deadlines: A Silent Growth Killer of Midsized Companies
Some companies let time slip away from them. The result is one missed deadline after another. CEOs must come down hard and enforce deadlines.
Why IBM CEO’s Public Spanking of the Sales Function Was the Right Move
Too many CEOs try so hard to avoid the old-style command and control, “Donald Trump” style of management that they just aren’t tough enough on poor performance. Last week IBM’s CEO publicly criticized her sales function, and I think she was right to do it.
Smart Companies Thinking Bigger Radio Show
Kelly Scanlon, the President and CEO of Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc., interviewed Rob for her Smart Companies Thinking Bigger blog talk radio show which ran October 5, 2012. The topic was “Why You Need Dissatisfied Employees” and focused on creating a high-performance work environment.
Kelly’s goal with her radio show is to provide business owners with strategies, connections and inspiration for reaching the next level. Join Kelly and Robert as they talk about systems you can use to get more from your team. Click here to listen to the broadcast.
Part II: Where’s the Boss? Driving Results in a Meeting
Last week I ranted a bit about how CEOs shouldn’t listen to the “time-wasting” bad rap that meetings have, but instead should make their meetings powerful, where they leverage the collective wisdom and experience of their top teams. This week I’m enumerating specific techniques to make meetings produce real results.
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).