The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 1, 2013

'Photo Credit: David Niblack. This final part of the article series addresses my top 10 leadership and culture practices for a strong accountability organization. Keep in mind that the 6 internal drivers, addressed in parts 1 and parts 2 , account for as much as 90% of your performance and results, including accountability. Practices by themselves, can’t drive accountability.

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The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

'As mentioned in our article “ The Shocking Costs of Hiring Mistakes … And The Secrets to Avoiding Them, “ too many hiring decisions are based solely on past experience and current skills without any regard to the real drivers - – mindset and “fit” – - of top performance. With permission to reprint his article “Hire for Will; Teach the Skill,” Ron Alvesteffer, CEO, SEI Service Express, Inc., shares how his company hires talent and finds “

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The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 1, 2013

'When was the last time you heard employees taking “ownership” and responsibility for the success and sustainability of the company? The likelihood is, maybe, 1 in a million. While I have always been a strong proponent of the concept of employee engagement , few authors rarely go into any specific nuts and bolts about how to achieve it.

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The Empowered Buisness

DECEMBER 2, 2013

'7 Secrets to Creating a Vision That Pulls Your Company Forward. It’s that time of the year! Most business leaders are preparing for an executive off-site to define their company’s future direction for the new year. Yet, in my 30 years experience of working with leadership teams and companies, the terms “vision,” “mission” and “values” are THE most overused, misunderstood and abused words in the business community today.

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The Empowered Buisness

OCTOBER 30, 2013

'One steep costly blindspot that I have observed in working with leaders is the unconscious avoidance, denial and/or toleration of under-performing employees. Shocking costs of hiring mistakes. More commonly known as the cost of a mis-hire. According to Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos, hiring mistakes have cost his company as much as $ 100 million! That’s alot of dollars immediately subtracted from the bottomline.

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The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

'With the new year coming, I asked myself … what wisdom could I provide to help leaders change their game in 2014? Most leaders’ looming questions during this time are …. • Where do we go from here? • What can we do to get to the next level? • What are we not being that we need to be? • What are we not doing that we need to do? While there are many classic leadership books that are still relevant today – like Good to Great and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – and a flooded marke

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