Eight Things Your Employees Want From You

Mar 07

Interesting and straight to the point article!. Here is a snapshot, while you can read it in full here. “I often have to remind the dedicated, smart CEOs I work with that leading takes time and energy. Directing the feelings, attitudes, actions, and behaviors of a team is a big task. Often, I also hear the secrets of these CEOs’ employees, about what...

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Four Tips for Building Accountability

Sep 06

” “Accountability” is a favorite word to invoke when the lack of it has become so apparent – such as now, with the global financial crisis. It is also a loaded word and political football in major sectors crying out for reform, such as health care and public education. Who should get what data about physician success rates, hospital...

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Getting Rid of Grades to Boost Performance

Apr 24

“… Interesting thoughts by Brian Div, Booz & Company”-Mouaz  Most companies grade their employees’ jobs using some kind of ranking or rating system based on job evaluation. The grades assigned are intended to assess fair pay for people doing the same work, and are usually public, like the letter grades of schools. In theory, these systems...

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Redefining the CEO Role

Apr 18

 Like the companies they run and oversee, CEOs and boards of directors in the financial sector have been battered by the credit meltdown. The witch’s brew of high leverage, poor risk management, creation of toxic assets, and faulty business judgments—made more poisonous by excessive short-term executive pay—are seen as failures of an unprecedented...

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