by Jim Schleckser | Aug 31, 2021 | Business, Culture, Entrepreneur, Leadership
Servant Leadership Principles: Do You Have What it Takes? People claim to be servant leaders, but are they? Here are five traits servant leaders share. I have written before about what it means to be a so-called “transformational leader” and how that helps...
by Jim Schleckser | Aug 17, 2021 | Business, Culture, Delegation, Leadership, Sales, Talent
Good salespeople are hard to find. Don’t waste their time on less valuable work. I was talking recently to the CEO of a small software technology business and a member of The CEO Project about some of the issues he was dealing with inside his company. One of the...
by Jim Schleckser | Aug 10, 2021 | Business, Culture, Leadership
It is tempting to pull rank to drive short-term results, but you’ll pay for it in the long run. Anyone who has ever been in a healthy relationship intuitively understands that forcing people to do something isn’t a recipe for sustainable success. While you...
by Jim Schleckser | Aug 3, 2021 | Business, Culture, Leadership, Strategy
Long-term success in business is not about cutting corners and short-term gains Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the bestselling business books of all time. Some of the key takeaways are life lessons like never saying a bad word...
by Jim Schleckser | Jul 13, 2021 | Business, Culture, Diversity, Talent
‘How’ tells you a lot about the potential fit of a candidate As leaders, one of the key roles many of us play inside our organizations is trying to find the next A player to hire to help transform the business. Finding top talent is also a classic struggle...
by Jim Schleckser | Jul 6, 2021 | Business, Culture, Diversity, Growth, Leadership, Talent
To make the perfect hire, you need to understand the role. In almost any kind of company you can name, you can divide the work that gets done as either a “front stage” or a “backstage” job. This distinction comes from the theater world, where...