SOCIAL MEDIA, TALENT RETENTION AND ACQUISITION

Social Media is playing a more significant role in both acquisition & retention of Senior Managers. While Social Media is universally used in the younger crowd, a quick look through Linkedin shows that Boomers are definitely participating. It’s not to be ignored....

FORD MOTOR COMPANY & LEADERSHIP

A recent article by Michael Stallard highlights 7 practices Alan Mulally, CEO Ford Motor Company, used to save Ford from Chrysler’s fate. Although one assumes financial controls, QC and other common business practices were part of the stew, the article focuses on...

LEADERSHIP MATTERS

A few years ago, a close friend and mentor called asking me to participate in a meeting with key sales executives of a company that had filed for bankruptcy, then liquidated. The stated purpose was to help them with their careers going forward. I used it as an...

THE POWER, AND VALUE OF TRUST

The caller was British. With a hint of Dutch. He owned a smallish ($25mm) company a few hundred miles from me, and needed a CEO and Board Member. He wanted to take the lumber from the woods, bring it to the mills, make logs from it, and sell it. Clearly, it was not a...

Judgement. A Necessity in the C-Suite.

As we sauntered through the bucolic hills and valleys of Western Pennsylvania, my friend and colleague looked at me and said, “What were they thinking?” It was a rhetorical question. The subject was judgment, and how sometimes it is not used by operating executives....