management

Show Your Employees Some Love

One of my close friends is the CEO and founder of Kathy Freeman Company. Kathy has a reputation for being an extremely talented and successful executive recruiter in the business of financial services. Since I have been interviewing senior executives about their business perspective over the last 45 days, I thought Kathy would be an [...]

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The New Reality

The conversations with senior leaders continues. It is clear that the landscape has dramatically changed, there are New Realities to acknowledge and conquer. 1. The bones have washed up on the beach: this means that market performance or product performance will not cover up ineptitude. The person that has been rising because all ships were rising is [...]

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Transparency is the New Black

The last week I have spent considerable time speaking to senior leaders about their attitudes and outlooks as we close out 2008 and enter 2009. Each of these individuals is uniquely qualified to comment as they are at the very center of the action. They are leaders in the industry at the vortex of it [...]

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Don’t Cross The Finish Line First

So many colleagues, friends and clients are Type A personalities, in fact so I am. We all share the same overachiever’s disease. Give us a task and we will get it done – correct and fast. Frequently our work is the first one across the due date finish line. Then came the Great Meltdown of [...]

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