The importance of how you engage people is highlighted in this week’s collection of curated content from around the Internet; we should probably credit Dale Carnegie with these fundamental principles that extend even into the virtual world today. Leadership, management, and productivity In this interview I explain why you need to develop a mission statement […]
In a previous post, I outlined how many small business owners and solopreneurs alternate between looking for clients and working for clients. When they’re busy with projects, they stop filling their sales funnel with prospects. To break this cycle, you need to automate funnel filling and there are two modes of automation: setting loose a […]
No doubt about it, being the boss is hard. Managing others means you have plenty of responsibility, and you have plenty on your plate. But like any good manager you know how important it is that your employees feel valued. Happy workers typically experience a 12 percent increase in productivity when compared to unhappy workers, […]
By Skip Weisman Peter Drucker, the guru of organizational development consulting, was quoted as saying that “culture eats strategy for lunch.” Since I mentioned that quote last month it may be useful for you to learn just what type of cultures there are, and which ones support company progress towards fulfilling strategy and which get eaten. […]
By Skip Weisman The CEO of a small, but well respected not-for-profit in my community told me she wanted to improve teamwork, create less resistance to it, and make it more consistent within her organization’s culture. As I probed deeper she commented, “We need to break down the silos in our organization, too.” When I heard […]