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Two Team Building & Leadership Success Stories

Mike Cardus

To read more success stories check out Team Building Stories and the Exponent Leadership Stories. Team Building & Leadership Success Stories. I consulted and led a 6 month coaching and training process with the Executive Vice President of Human Resources and 14 of the Associate Vice Presidents.

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With This Many Management Layers I am Surprised we Get Any Work Done!

Mike Cardus

Coaching and consulting a CEO named Chris. One of our Directors got a hold of my VP of Human Resources and convinced her that he needed an Assistant Director to complete all the work that was expected. Photo Credit. In our first meeting we began to tackle the challenge of ‘Determining the Levels of Work Within the Company’.

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In Praise of Average Joes

In the CEO Afterlife

Those that thrive, go a step further; they worship innovation and breathe culture. But the resource that continues to be overlooked by CEOs and Boards is the organization’s Average Joe. A CEO couldn’t ask for a better soldier in the battlefield. Average Joes are the majority of the work force.

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Managerial-Leadership Case Study: Falling from Big Enough to Too Small in competence for the role

Mike Cardus

The most frightening thing about having a manager that is “Too small” and creates under-performance and dis-engagement is the gradual reduction in level of competence of the subordinate team, which creates broad departmental under-performance and increased dis-engagement. Jackie had recently been hired as vice-president of engineering.

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Your Quick Fixes are Exacerbating Your Organizational and Team Problems

Mike Cardus

Leading to Executives, Human Resources and team leaders grasping at the ‘Next Thing’ in order to cut the down on the felt mounting bureaucracy and dis-trust within the organization and team. The guess-work of how many managerial layers to have causes dis-trust and halts any innovation within the organization.

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These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team

Chart Your Course

You as the Leader and CEO. One of the issues that tech innovators find is the mad-genius paradox. The post These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team appeared first on Business Motivational Speaker|Team Building |DISC Training. You are the linchpin of the company.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

The essence of the book is captured in the quote by Robert Eckert, former Mattel CEO: “As you go to work, your top responsibility should be to build trust.” It is one of the top selling business books of all time and a favourite among CEOs. Human Resource Champions (1996). By Jim Collins. By Jack Welch.