Communication Tips for New Hires to Be Successful

New hires come into the company usually excited about contributing right away. They want to deliver lots of value to their new employer. What makes it complicated are long tenured team members who use different terms for the same requirement or process. This then creates frustration and confusion for new employees. Proper communication processes involving …

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Reading Creates Great Opportunities to Grow Yourself and Your Business

Reading can be an amazing conduit to learn new ideas, to expand your abilities and to better understand rapid change. I believe that leaders who read consistently tend to be more responsive to changes in the business environment and open to new ways to grow their organization. Building knowledge and developing your own intellectual and …

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Leaders Prioritize

If your business or team has limited resources, then a lack of prioritization could cost you a client, a valued team member or the ability to conduct a project that fits your business. Team members don’t want to guess with what is important in the big picture when everything seems important. Prioritization maximizes your resources …

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Business Metrics that Support Decision Making

How well are you measuring your business performance? Choosing the correct metrics will enable you to make the relevant decisions to drive your most important metric: sales. A metric is a key activity in your business that you must measure, evaluate and use to make decisions. Measuring and making decisions with the incorrect metrics will …

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Team USA Men’s Basketball Team Seems Complacent in Win

I’m not sure if it was 100% complacency or just a lack of focus, but the Men’s USA Olympic Basketball team nearly lost to Serbia on Friday night, August 12th, 2016. Our Men’s team have been winning games with little effort for years. Even last night during the game, they had a large lead, but …

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