A Better First Day for Your Grad
It’s said that happiness is having your expectations met. If you have a young person in your life about to experience the “shock of transition” from the safety and security of the academy to the world of work, helping them form reasonable expectations of what to expect on the job might make for a better first day. […]
The Good Hiring Equation
Recruiting is selling your company as a great place to work but being selective about whom you hire. Vistage employment law expert Hunter Lott can help you with both tasks in two of his “Take Five With Hunter Videos.” One of the first Vistage speakers I ever hear warned my members, “We hire people for what they know, […]
Where AI is NOT OK
Few new technologies have been embraced as quickly and widely as AI. Many employers are excited by the opportunities to control staffing costs; the staff are understandably excited, but in a different way. Science fiction writer (and scientist) Arthur C. Clarke once remarked. “Technological advancements are vastly overrated in the short term, and vastly underrated […]
The First Great Depression
One of the prices we pay for the blessings of capitalism in general, and an industrial economy in particular, is a business cycle that goes the wrong way about 25 % of the time. Periodic recessions are inevitable, and history warns us that truly significant and extended downturns are possible such as the Great Recession of 2008-2009 and […]
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:
Slowing Momentum: In his latest FedWatch, ITR Economics looks at new data and explains why the economy may be slowing down. Second Half Game Plan: Hard to believe we’re close to being halfway through the 2020s. ITR Economics’ Lauren Saidel-Baker gives us a look at the next five years and shares how to Unleash Your Potential in the Second Half of […]
Eavesdropping 2.0
Growing up in a rural area in the 1960s, we had what was then known as “party line” telephone service. If you’re not familiar, it meant that several different households (plus our family’s business) were on the same telephone line, each had a different ring for an incoming call and, only one household could use the line […]
10 Lessons from “The Everything Store”
I love good business books, but what I love even more are well written summaries of good business books. To that end, if you haven’t read “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” check out this terrific article from the Farnam Street blog “10 Things I Learned Reading Brad Stone’s “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the […]
Moby Dick and Venture Capital
Most businesspeople in the SMB space have heard of venture capital but are unlikely to ever access it or have had much direct experience with it. The overwhelming majority of businesses were initially financed by founders, friends and families, and bank loans etc. But the businesses that have the greatest impact on our lives in recent decades […]
The 65% Rule ( Or the Perils of Winning)
A common aphorism in Vistage Groups is “the second worst thing that can happen to a company is success.” Usually this means that the leader of a successful enterprise believes he or she has cracked the secret code to dominance and nothing further need be done but make sure no one changes anything. This is […]
