What goes into creating a great new hire experience? Please find a great article sharing how a Small Giant company makes the new employee experience a memorable one - in a good way.My favorite bit:"The dreaded first lunch: without structured onboarding, this can often make team members feel like the new kid in the school cafeteria. A … Continue reading 4 Steps to a More Successful Onboarding Program

"The good men may do separately is small compared to what they may do collectively." Benjamin Franklin He would know.....Mr. Franklin started many first-of-its-kind successful organizations through his junto of 12 members. Some are still in existence today. The nation's first Lending Library University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Hospital Most notably, he was the only Founding Father who was … Continue reading Why Performance is a Team Sport

I have been reading a couple of books by historian Yuval Noah Harari and Steven Pinker - two great thinkers of history and cognitive science.  In Sapiens and Homo Deus, Harari has an interesting take of why Communism, for all intents and purposes, failed. In Pinker's Enlightenment Now, he shows how Democracy has flourished in the past 30 years - doubling … Continue reading Why too many businesses look like communism

Click on this link to see the full video (0:38) of the screenshot above showing how one can get into trouble by doing too many things at once. In a February 2006 TED Talk, Sir Ken Robinson said the following..."Our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability. And there's a reason. Around the … Continue reading Why the leader has to fire herself from the day to day

There may be a few excellent ways to sell and service your product or solution but there are definitely not 10, 20 and certainly not 50.  Monthy Python Silly Olympics - Race for People with No Sense of Direction If you do not have a Sales Playbook, chances are that your sales reps are each figuring out … Continue reading Two Playbooks – Pre-Sales and Post-Sales

Radical Candor is the wrong approach for proper feedback and growth From Feedback is not Enough Gallup article - The six most dreaded words for any employee: Can I give you some feedback? Gallup has found that only 26% of employees strongly agree that the feedback they receive helps them do better work. Although it is quite … Continue reading Radical Candor is just plain wrong!  (Neuroscience backs me up)

I think we all want to ask good, if not great, questions in a job interview. This shows the interviewer what you are made of and also helps you figure out if you want to work there. There are plenty of websites and experts that give you advice on what to ask a potential employer. For instance, here … Continue reading THE INTERVIEWEE BILL OF RIGHTS

“The 3HAG system easily integrated strategic purpose into our execution process, resulting in us achieving annual growth rate of 30%+ consistently. Having experimented with other systems, I found 3HAG’s multi-system design uniquely beneficial in it’s ability to weave in different initiatives simultaneously, all under the #1 corporate goal of growing top-line revenue and bottom-line profit. … Continue reading Growth Roundtable participants see 3x growth in 3 years

Ask two questions to be a great team leader  In a recent 19 country research study, ADP Research Institute surveyed almost 20,000 people regarding teams. Here is what they found: 83% of respondents stated that they are on a team64% of those folks said they are on more than one team75% of those folks say that the team … Continue reading Why the Weekly 1:1 Check-in is a Game Changer

According to research provided by HBR, there are four things that stood out when comparing the successful leaders versus the rest. Amazing facts in this video: 50-60% of leaders fail within the first 18 months61% - of leaders were not prepared76% - of leaders said that the organization did little to nothing to prepare them for … Continue reading Four Things Great Leaders Do