by Jim Schleckser | Jan 10, 2018 | Business
Get Ahead to Stay Ahead With the New Year right around upon us, here are 5 trends that will impact your business in 2018 and beyond: 1. Lack of “Place” Accelerates In the coming year, we will continue to see the diminished importance of the need to have a...
by Jim Schleckser | Dec 26, 2017 | Entrepreneur, Leadership, Management
There is common link between your leadership style, call it your personal leadership brand, and the kind of brand relationship you have with your customers. Namely, you have a choice to make: do you want to be respected or loved? Let me explain. Let’s start by...
by Jim Schleckser | Nov 27, 2017 | Leadership
Be the Boss Being the leader of a business isn’t always glamorous. More often than not, your time is going to be spent figuring out where your company went wrong. In the book Great CEOs Are Lazy (Inc. Original Imprint, 2016), leadership consultant Jim Schleckser...
by Jim Schleckser | Nov 9, 2017 | Delegation
Rather than thinking of delegation as a binary issue–either you delegate or you don’t–consider what it might look like on a sliding scale In a prior article, I talked about the power of using the 70% rule when it comes to delegating tasks to your...
by Jim Schleckser | Oct 26, 2017 | Business
Hint: It’s Not Conformity It all begins with answering a crucial question: What makes your business unique? Southwest Airlines, Google, and the Ritz Carlton are three of the most successful companies around. But what makes each of them so successful? The answer...
