Zen Habits offered up a brief guide to life on Monday. You may consider this a little off topic for this blog. I will argue. Part of being a good leader is finding balance. less TV, more reading less shopping, more outdoors less clutter, more space less rush, more slowness less consuming, more creating less [...]
Zen Habits – Smile. Breathe. And Go Slowly.
September 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · change
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Running A Successful Turnaround: Final Thoughts
August 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized, change, operations, tools
I have been working on a series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. We’ve talked about financials, how to get a handle on your customers and understanding youremployees in an effort to get them more engaged, and finally, we talked about processes. When you walk into a situation [...]
Tags: change·finance·leadership·management·operations·running a successful turnaround·sales·systems·tools
Running A Successful Turnaround: Process Improvements
August 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized, change, management, operations, tools
I have been working on a series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. I would take a stab at a scenario an MBA candidate/intern threw at me. So far we have talked about financials, how to get a handle on your customers and understanding your employees [...]
Tags: change·management·operations·running a successful turnaround·tools
Running a Successful Turnaround: The Employee View
July 25th, 2010 · No Comments · change, leadership, management, operations, tools
I have been working on a series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. I would take a stab at a scenario an MBA candidate/intern threw at me. So far we have talked about financials and how to get a handle on your customers. Its all about [...]
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Running a Successful Turnaround: The Customer View
July 17th, 2010 · No Comments · change, customer service, leadership, management, operations
Last week, I started as series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. Inspired by a promising MBA student that is doing an internship with us, I thought I would take a stab at a scenario she threw at me. Last week-ish we talked about financials. [...]
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Nailing an Interview
May 26th, 2009 · No Comments · career, coaching, interviewing, personal branding
Get Rich Slowly linked to a post on How to Nail an Interview recently.There are some great tips here and I know some of you are out there hustling to find a new opportunity. Check it out. I like the authors methodology. Real world research. Not miscellaneous thoughts from people that did some hiring 20 [...]
Tags: career·career management·interviewing·personal branding·tools
Gen X Loves Social Networking
May 12th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Facebook, Twitter, linkedin, marketing, networking, social networking, tools
Just read the latest from Penelope Trunk. Do you know who is using social media? Gen X. The average Twitter user is in their 30s. The median age of LinkedIn is 40. The majority of people who are joining Facebook right now are over 35. This is because Gen X wants to meet new people [...]
Tags: Facebook·Linkedin·Penelope Trunk·social networking·tools·Twitter
Lifehacker: Top 10 Tools for Landing a Better Job
February 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · career, tools
Sorry its been so long. My daughter got sick and ultimately came down with pneumonia. We’ve been in the hospital for a week. I expect to be here another few days. I have a ton of reading to catch up with. Lifehacker had a post about the Top 10 Tools for Landing a Better Job [...]
Tags: career·career management·tools
Free Networking Templates
January 16th, 2009 · No Comments · career, coaching, social networking, tools
Hannah has turned me on to upmo.com Link to a page on their site that lists 3 networking email templates. You could easily use them as a phone call script as well. Templates: Getting Reconnected Job-finder Intro A Thankful Request I would lose the “I’m incredibly busy right now” line from the Job-finder Intro template. [...]
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LinkedIn in Plain English
December 21st, 2008 · No Comments · social networking, tools
Props to Hannah for pointing this out in her blog. Here is a great intro to LinkedIn – most of you know I am a LinkedIn fiend. This is a very easy to handle explanation. What is LinkedIn? from LinkedIn Marketing on Vimeo.





