You might have noticed a theme in the last few blog posts – toxic staff… You might think I am anti “employees”, but you’d be wrong. The problem does not lie solely with staff, but with who hired them in the first place. Once someone has been hired, it’s increasingly harder to get rid of […]
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Today’s blog post is quick and easy. Letting someone go is never easy, but every once in a while, it’s necessary. Here is a quick way to know if you should let someone go. Ask yourself this simple question: “If I knew then what I know now about this person (all the good and bad), […]
For me, there are only two types of employees: Those who are assets and those who are liabilities. Wonder which one you are? Take this simple test: When asked to do something, do you say “yes, then maybe, then no” or do you respond with “no, then maybe and then yes” (reluctantly)? If you are […]
I wanted to share an email with you – this was a friend who was running his business into the ground. I left it in its raw form to give you a sense of what it’s like to told what you don’t want to hear, but need to hear. It’s what my Platinum Program members […]
In my cornerstone event, Unleash The Speaker Within, I teach people the art and science of how to speak in public. This is the antithesis – How NOT to speak in public. That being said, this was an elected official in the United States – can you believe it?!?
If you’ve had any hardships in the past – depression, divorce, suicide, drug or alcohol addictions, mental illness you need to seriously consider the impact revealing any of these can have on your career or business. This is one of the PERSONA PRINCIPLES that are critical to a successful career or business. People have biases […]
Character is what you do when no one is watching and your reputation is what others perceive you to be. That’s why it’s important that you make the right impression every chance you get. It takes a lifetime to build character and yet reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Remember that the next time […]
In a previous blog post I discussed a hot topic called “the ugliness factor”. Today’s post is along the same lines – how tall you are determines how much you make AND how smart you are! Read on. While researchers have long shown that tall people earn more than their shorter counterparts, it’s not only […]
In a recent Financial Review article, Michael Mauboussin, author of Think Twice: Harnessing The Power of Counterintuition, explained how star performers fail when they switch companies. His explanations and identification of the three sources of perceptual distortion is absolutely brilliant. This is the kind of stuff that is being collated, collected and assembled for Professional […]
I am not sure this team really understands the concept of TEAMwork… Not exactly what you’d call a high performance team…