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...
by Jim Schleckser | Jun 29, 2021 | Business, Strategy
Knowing how ‘breakeven’ is defined can keep you in business. When I ask business leaders how their business is doing, I’ll often get a response that goes something like, “Well, we’re breaking even.” Most of us have an intuitive...
by Jim Schleckser | Jun 26, 2021 | Business, Culture
Highly successful people measure themselves on seven key elements to living a healthy and fulfilling life. Most of us business leaders have a time in our lives when we just feel out of whack. Specifically, we feel like we’ve lost that sense of work-life balance....
by Jim Schleckser | Jun 9, 2021 | Business, Culture, Delegation, Diversity, Leadership
Test yourself against the 4 I’s to find out whether you’re doing what it takes. There’s a lot of research around leadership styles out there. But one area of consensus is that many leaders now aspire to become known as “transformational...
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 | Apr 27, 2021 | Business, Growth, Marketing
If you want more clients and peers to recommend your company to others, follow this simple Likely, you know someone that you’re more than happy to refer to other people. In fact, we might even feel some sense of an obligation to help them out with a referral....
