The Ultimate MasterMind

October 7th, 2010

950 years of business experience.  No, it’s not a typo. I just met with a group of business people in Washington State for lunch. Between them, they have 950 years of experience, and the headcount was only 30.  That’s approximately 32 years business experience each, if I did my math right. (I have 33 years in business for [...]

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Getting the Right Things Done Right

August 9th, 2010

I was in Phoenix last week at the Summer Conference for TTI Performance Systems.  Always in pursuit of how we can help our clients manage their businesses and their talent better, a select group of 50 of us put our head down and went to work: branstorming, collaborating, sharing knowledge, and listening to experts in [...]

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Stop the Bleeding! Reduce Turnover!

March 22nd, 2010

If a job could talk, what would it say about itself?
What would it say are the behaviors, key motivators, and personal skills necessary for superior performance?
 
Job Benchmarking is a process that tells you that very thing, about any position in your organization. 
 
80% of turnover is caused by bad hiring decisions, and a job analysis is the most [...]

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Growing Your Business Without Hiring Anyone New

March 9th, 2010

   Growing your Business without Hiring Anyone New 
Yesterday we talked about Strategy, Today we’ll talk about Efficiency, and Tomorrow we’ll talk Viabillity
 
Part Two: Efficiency
 
·       Systems, Processes, and Standardized Procedures. When these are not in place, or inadequate or outdated,  your organization is wasting so much time.  The average worker spends up to 20% of [...]

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How much is too much? Internet Use in the workplace

June 9th, 2009

FaceBook?  Are you kidding me?  Who’s got time for that?
Let’s get real.  Using official Facebook statistics (http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics), over 100 million users login to Facebook every day . Over 3.5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day. This means an average user spends 35 minutes on Facebook, before logging off. It’s not going away.  Plenty of people [...]

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