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Building a Coaching Culture in Your Small Business

Thin Difference

It takes time and energy, two things often in short supply in small businesses. Throughout his career, Dan Foster has successfully helped executives, small business owners, and sales professionals increase their influence, make better decisions, and achieve the results they desire. Building a Coaching Culture. Guest Post.

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The Impact of Great and Terrible Leaders

Leading Blog

Hans Vestberg is the CEO of Verizon Communications, an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate with over 152,000 employees around the world. Bad leaders often only care about the numbers or advancing their own career instead of creating a team mentality and moving the company towards success. Impact of Bad Leaders.

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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. Is your spouse willing to make significant career or personal sacrifices that might be required to support you and the business? Family Questions. Imagine yourself as an old person.

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The Myth of Work-Life Balance

Harvard Business Review

What they don't understand is that modern-day telecommunications, the hair-trigger requirements of financial markets, and the pace of global organizations create 24 x 7 work lives for most executives. Many managers are "sprinters" early in their careers. Think for a minute. Recognition, rewards, and promotions come their way quickly.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,

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The Rise of the COO

Harvard Business Review

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. An American PhD student in computer science never even thinks about a career in the automobile industry — or, for that matter, other manufacturing-related fields.