by Jim Schleckser | Jul 19, 2018 | Advisory Groups, Talent
Does Your Employee Know They Are About to be Fired? I’ve had many managers report to me across my career as a leader and CEO. And over the years, many of those managers have come to me at different times to express a keen desire to fire one of their own direct...
by Jim Schleckser | Jul 5, 2018 | Business
Put the bottom line up front to be a great communicator. When most people communicate or have an update to share at work, either in an email or with a verbal report, they love to share their entire intellectual journey. They tend to start at the beginning, and then...
by Jim Schleckser | Jun 5, 2018 | Bonuses, Delegation
Don’t Dilute Your Diligence This article is excerpted from the book Great CEOs Are Lazy (Inc. Original Imprint, 2016) A lot of the mediocre and hardworking CEOs we have run into over the years are exceptionally good at what we call “peanut...
by Jim Schleckser | Jun 4, 2018 | Talent
You can get an immediate jump in productivity. Accountability is a topic that lots of CEOs and leaders talk about. Specifically, most of their concern is that they don’t feel like their people hold themselves accountable for the things they need to do in driving...
by Jim Schleckser | May 18, 2018 | Business
A three-tiered approach to the monetization of data that follows the framework of Aggregation, Analytics, and Actionable Predictions. Just about every business is awash in data these days. From data about your customers and their buying habits to data about the market...