Good article in Entrepreneur Magazine summarizing the steps to create a culture of excellence.Summary:Create a master document to spell out exactly what excellence means.Survey your customers. Get outside help. Talk with the neighbors. S…
Month: March 2010
Impact with Jim – Better Presentations – Mar 26,2010
The author of “Crash and Learn,” Jim Smith, Jr. brings us lessons for high-impact presentations — to boards, customers, and employees.leadership | management | CEO | impact | presentation
Deeper on Teams
We dive deeper on teamwork and team building with two returning experts: John Bender and Peter Bye. John was senior director of merger integration for HP’s $19.5 billion acquisition of Compaq. Peter was Corporate Diversity Director at AT&T. They di…
John Bender on Building Virtual Teams
For our recent interview, John Bender shared this outline of his thinking on the topic of virtual teams, team building and trust building. I share it here in its entirety (with some formatting tweaks) because it is an outstanding, compact summati…
Deeper on Teams – Mar 19,2010
We dive deeper on teamwork and team building with two returning experts: John Bender and Peter Bye. John was senior director of merger integration for HP’s $19.5 billion acquisition of Compaq. Peter was Corporate Diversity Director at AT&T. They discus…
Storytelling Redux with Seth Kahan
Following up on our recent interview of four experts on business storytelling, we drill down into the how-tos of good storytelling, including when to use which type of story. My returning guest is Seth Kahan of visionaryleadership.com, who will also di…
Storytelling Redux – Mar 12,2010
Following up on our recent interview of four experts on business storytelling, we drill down into the how-tos of good storytelling, including when to use which type of story. My returning guest is Seth Kahan of visionaryleadership.com, who will also di…
What is Trust?
A big part of our last show on rebuilding a damaged team included the importance in the team of trust.What is trust?One formulation suggests it is:Predictability – I know what you will do and can guess with high confidence your future behavior in certa…
Re-Building your Virtual Team
How can you re-build a virtual (i.e. geographically dispersed) team that has had some negative interactions within the group? If you had a single in-person team meeting, how would you go about rebuilding trust and a sense of camaraderie within the grou…
Team Re-Building – Mar 09,2010
How can you re-build a virtual (i.e. geographically dispersed) team that has had some negative interactions within the group? If you had a single in-person team meeting, how would you go about rebuilding trust and a sense of camaraderie within the grou…
Derek Sivers’ Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy
It’s delightful how a simple video becomes a powerful teaching tool in the hands of a master like Derek. Enjoy.
CEO Tips for Email Sanity
There are two groups of topics I cover — issues unique to CEOs and business owners, and topics more universal that I know many CEOs care deeply about. This topic is the latter — Email Sanity.I found the perfect resource for this hour-long inter…
CEOs and Email Sanity – Mar 05,2010
Randall “Randy” Dean, MBA, the “Totally Obsessed” Time Management Guy and E-mail Sanity Expert http://www.randalldean.com and http://www.emailsanityexpert.com See Randy’s New Book and Recent Amazon.com #1 E-mail Bestseller, Taming the E-mail Beast, at …
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