Three Disciplines for Making Smarter People Decisions—Discipline #3: Accountability
“The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed responsibility for his [...]
The Discipline of Making Smarter People Decisions—Discipline #2: Establishing an Interview Assessment Process
businessman looking at hand drawn business concept sketch Several months ago, I wrote a blog entry titled, “where smarter people decisions begin.” Summarizing that entry, [...]
Search for Technically Competent CEO?
Vector Illustration - Brain Searching Concept With the sudden retirement of California utility PG&E CEO Peter Darbee, the “President of the California Public Utilities Commission [...]
The Discipline of Making Smarter People Decisions
Red shoes standing next start with arrow painted on ground If you expect to make a key hire this year, follow the three steps below [...]
Tell Us About You – What a Team Wants to Know About a New Leader
A client, let's call him Joe, who recently joined a global consumer goods organization, participated in a process known as a New Leader Assimilation about a month [...]
Steve Jobs on interviewing for “needles in the haystack”
Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on [...]
Upgrading Talent? The Business Case for Coaching the Externally Hired Leader
A priority for many business executives in this down economy is upgrading leadership talent in such areas as Sales, Finance, and Supply Chain. In these and [...]
Avoiding the Experience Trap
Help Wanted...Only those with current experience in our market, industry, product, technology, systems, etc. need apply....Many companies believe that in today's environment the best candidates are those [...]