Home Safe Home
In a seller’s market for talent and labor, compensation and benefits are key. Salaries, wages, health care, retirement, vacation help attract and keep great employees. How about a benefit that will help employees protect themselves, their families, and assets? (And it’s free). Vistage IT Security Speaker and IT Security Expert Mike Foster usually focuses on helping us […]
The Reality of Real Estate Now
All of us, whether in management or not have some dependence on real estate, being a home we own, apartment we rent, commercial or retail properties that our businesses use. Recently, the rise of interest rates due to inflation has impacted the housing markets and work from has had a profound effect on commercial real […]
Guilty as Charged?
The late Peter Drucker once remarked that the essence of people management strategy was to “leverage their strengths and make their weaknesses irrelevant”. Simon Sinek, who shot to fame with his book and TED Talk “Start with Why”, adds an interesting tactic that aligns with this strategy. Find out if you’re “guilty as charged” with this common leadership fallacy.
Great Obnoxious HR Questions
In my experience, most of my problems in life were self-made and had their origins in the questions I didn’t ask. Vistage speaker and HR Expert Hunter recently suggest that there are five queries that will save you a lot of time and trouble in hiring. Check out his recent “Take 5 with Hunter Lott” video for […]
You’re Not Running a Bowling Team
If you’ve been invited to join a Vistage group, it won’t be long before you’ll hear one member warn another “we hire people for what they know, and fire them for who they are.” Measuring what people ‘know’, call it ‘vocational skills” are easily tested, measured, or validated. But according to one of the best management writers of our […]
Vistage Webinar: Three Non-negotiables (FINAL NOTICE)
Vistage members are fortunate to have access to experts in so many fields. One of the most important questions facing our members is the future of talent management. One of our most valuable experts on the workplace is Dr. Gustavo Grodnitzky who has been Vistage’s premier thought leader on dynamics of different generations in the workplace […]
Best Blogs
I resource material for your “edification, enlightenment, and enjoyment” from many sources. I will continue to provide specific recommendations as above for the content I think is worthwhile. But if you don’t find anything to your liking above, check out this list of the best (in my opinion) blogs, websites etc. for the C-Level Executive from proven […]
Econ Recon:
The Fed: Tight or Light?: Mark Twain once remarked that: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” In the crazy world of post-Covid economics, there may be more than a little truth to that remark. Economist Brian Wesbury reflects on the supposed tight monetary […]
Three Non-negotiables
Vistage members are fortunate to have access to experts in so many fields. One of the most important questions facing our members is the future of talent management. One of our most valuable experts on the workplace is Dr. Gustavo Grodnitzky who has been Vistage’s premier thought leader on dynamics of different generations in the workplace […]
An Old Disruption
We’ve gotten so used to information technology either directly or indirectly disrupting one industry or another that we’re prone to think disruption is a phenomenon driven by the microprocessor. But a new technology that allows an entrepreneur to upend the status quo is not a new story. It’s happened many times before. An excellent article […]
