by Jim Schleckser | Mar 7, 2019 | Delegation, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Management
Over the past few years, we have become accustomed to an extreme level of transparency in our lives. If you want to go shop for a new TV, for example, there are endless comparison sites online where you can compare everything from feature sets to the ease of set up...
by Jim Schleckser | Mar 5, 2019 | Leadership
Most Leaders Miss This Critical Culture Element If you go to business school to get your MBA, you’ll likely learn about a concept known as a “span of control.” In short, a span of control means how many employees a single manager might have reporting...
by Jim Schleckser | Feb 28, 2019 | Leadership
It’s a balance of brains and people skills. We live in a world where nearly every parent encourages their children to get good grades in school. Not only that, there might even be the expectation that their child gets all A’s–a perfect 4.0-grade...
by Jim Schleckser | Feb 1, 2019 | Leadership
Silence is the Source of Great Strength A book came out within the past few years that has become quite popular. It’s called Quiet by Susan Cain, where she writes about the power of introverts to remain silent and focused in a noisy world. Cain makes the...
by Jim Schleckser | Jan 18, 2019 | Leadership
And there is an easy way to figure out which manager. Turnover of any kind inside a company can be problematic – especially these days when everyone is engaged in a war for talent. But that’s especially true when it comes to your star employees – the...
by Jim Schleckser | Jan 8, 2019 | Budget, Business, Customers, Entrepreneur, Leadership
I recently received a fancy fitness monitor as a gift. It tracks my heart rate as well as a bevy of other stats about my body, everything from how much I sleep, how well I sleep, to how my heart rate changes during exercise. The amount of data now at my fingertips is...
