by Jim Schleckser | Oct 10, 2019 | Leadership
Transparency and vulnerability are key and hard to have. One of the most important things we do as leaders are to help align teams around attaining a strategic goal or goals. Lots of leaders struggle with this, mostly because they are opaque about what is in their...
by Jim Schleckser | Nov 7, 2018 | Delegation
It’s Not Easy to Put the Next Generation in Place Many entrepreneurs who start and grow a business hope that someday their family–specifically their children–will take over running the company. Even better, the business would pass from generation to...
by Jim Schleckser | Jul 19, 2018 | Advisory Groups, Talent
Does Your Employee Know They Are About to be Fired? I’ve had many managers report to me across my career as a leader and CEO. And over the years, many of those managers have come to me at different times to express a keen desire to fire one of their own direct...
by Jim Schleckser | May 18, 2018 | Business
A three-tiered approach to the monetization of data that follows the framework of Aggregation, Analytics, and Actionable Predictions. Just about every business is awash in data these days. From data about your customers and their buying habits to data about the market...
by Jim Schleckser | Jan 30, 2018 | Budget, Business, Entrepreneur, Growth
As a leader inside an organization, there is a fundamental question you should be constantly using when it comes to making decisions: Will your customer pay for it? Asking this question is a particularly elegant way of helping you streamline your organization by...
