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I mentioned Ken Thomson’s leadership recently and today want to mention Reid Hoffman. Ken Thomson is not a genius, but got good people (also not geniuses) who had the same values and direction. Reid Hoffman is a Genius. He started and led LinkedIn. Ronen Shilo says, ” First, he had a vision which he executed […]
Continue Reading →Hiring for credentials is epidemic and unwise. Readers probably know how much harm I have seen from this practice. I could not help but paste a piece of this article explaining how Thomson Corporation achieved huge growth over the 30 years of Ken Thomson’s leadership. I paste several words below. In 1976, Thomson inherited a […]
Continue Reading →I heard an old boss remark once, “They should be thankful they have a job.” Then he knuckled down on their benefits. Forbes put out survey data on employee satisfaction. Just 19% of Americans are satisfied with their job. See the whole article here. They note the world situation is much the same. It does […]
Continue Reading →I wanted to talk on this principle that yesterday I touched on. I was leading a factory through a large reorganization, and a home office person wanted me to give him a man to clean up the floor right now. I politely asked him to bear with us. I felt we needed to find out […]
Continue Reading →The highly successful Western GM of Bosch Siemens Wuxi likes to say this. “Fear must be driven out.” What he sees is that fear is a big enemy of high quality production and overall business growth. I so agree. When workers fear, their creativity dives. Their initiative goes down. Reporting of problems goes down. Workers […]
Continue Reading →I often tell people around me, “To objectively read a book is impossible.” This is an important principle that many of you know in one way or another. However, most people do not realize how fundamental this idea is to business growth. A corollary to this phrase would be: to objectively view a customer, supplier, […]
Continue Reading →I may not catch this webinar, but what they say in the opening here is so right…. Hiring + 90 Wisdom and M4R Model: Managing and Engaging in the First Quarter Hiring the right person – check. Managing the new hire – check. Engaging the new hire – uh oh! The first 90 days can […]
Continue Reading →Just listened to an Idea Cast at HBR titled Designing Space For Creative Collaboration. Nice podcast and very worth ten minutes of time to listen to. The Stanford University authors of Make-Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration have done good research on how to make a creative environment. In fact, all businesses […]
Continue Reading →While other stakeholders are also pressing on a leader, these are the big three. I recently talked with a successful CEO here in China who mentioned that he had to spend 50% of his time and energy to making sure the home office will support what he is doing. He also must chase the market […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →David Rae has a post up at the Procurements Leaders Site. Find the whole post here It is a good post and worth a read for those interested in sourcing or retention. In it, he notes that finding good people is hard and retaining them is at crisis proportions. Ah, yes. Sourcing is very much […]
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