by Jim Schleckser | Mar 10, 2015 | Business, Decision Making, Delegation, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Strategy
One of the most important jobs any leader does is decide what issues to tackle inside the organization at any given time. But how do you choose which ones are the most critical? Risk is a major component in deciding what comes first. Consider the analogy of a naval...
by Jim Schleckser | Mar 19, 2024 | Entrepreneur, HR, Management, Talent
The term “A-players” has become commonplace in the modern workplace, universally understood to represent your organization’s top performers. These individuals consistently deliver exceptional results and maintain higher standards of quality compared...
by Jim Schleckser | Dec 28, 2021 | Business, Decision Making, Entrepreneur, Leadership
You’ve been approached about buying a business. What do you do first? The demographics tell an exciting story: we’re likely to see hundreds of thousands of small owners looking to retire over the next decade. Does the big question then become what will...
by Jim Schleckser | May 7, 2021 | Advisory Groups, Business, Marketing, Sales
Asking is more powerful than telling. We face situations every day at work when we’d like to influence people to our way of thinking. From asking someone to join your project or a new business partnership, or even selling your company, in all these situations,...
by Jim Schleckser | Dec 22, 2020 | Business
We can’t rely on traditional approaches Research into the science behind human communication tells us that up to 90 percent of what we tell one another is nonverbal. In other words, the majority of our communication isn’t with words. It’s the innumerable...
