by Jim Schleckser | Aug 22, 2019 | Talent
W.L Gore lets you pick your title and everyone is happier One of the things that we’re tempted to do in the early days of a business is to hand out titles. That’s especially true when you’re limited in how much money you can spend even as you try and...
by Jim Schleckser | Aug 2, 2019 | Talent
Whoa and Giddy up Can Tell You Everything In my various roles leading organizations over the years, I came up with a management concept that I found to be incredibly valuable. It came down to asking myself a particular question when it came to my employees. The...
by Jim Schleckser | Jul 18, 2019 | Acquisitions
Or, a pig with lipstick is still a pig I have worked with a number of CEOs who have gone through the sale of their business. And one of the questions I get asked by people going through this process is about whether they should be doing any advance work inside the...
by Jim Schleckser | Jul 9, 2019 | Board of Directors, Business, Culture
I have written before about advisory boards and the steps you can take toward evolving that board into a more formal, fiduciary board for your business. But there are also steps you can take in the near-term to leverage your board in a different way to help grow your...
by Jim Schleckser | Jul 5, 2019 | Leadership
You may have unwittingly handed over control. Anytime we create a new board or committee, we inevitably skew toward using an odd number. And there’s a good precedent for why we do this: we need an odd number to break a tie. There’s a reason, for example,...
