Crossing Your Rubicon
Angela Duckworth became famous a few years back for her research and subsequent book: “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance” In it, she warned that an important aspect of becoming “gritty” is a strategy for dealing with disappointment and discouragement. She suggests that “The difference between being all in versus anything else comes down to whether […]
Entrepreneurship: Delicacy to Staple
If I say “soup,” what the first name that comes to mind? It’s probably Campbells which is probably the best-known soup brand on the planet. “Today, soup is comfort food, but in the 1890s, it was an exclusive delicacy. John Dorrance (Campbell’s co-founder) hoped to bring soup to the masses” according to a short article from […]
“A Sublime and Sordid Aspiration”
Companies grow because of a great vision, great luck, or both (usually). The same can happen with cities. To wit: Las Vegas. Known as “Sin City,’ Las Vegas is best known for legalized gambling on the famous “Strip” inspired by the first modern casino, The Flamingo which was the vision of mobster Ben “Bugsy” Siegel as […]
“Forewarned”
One of the keys to a happy life is a productive relationship with the future. For many of us, this involves predictions, overconfidence, and anxiety. Or as NYU Professor Scott Galloway observes “the best way to predict the future is to make it, but there’s a corollary: The best way to prevent the future is to […]
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 […]
