In 2015 the book The One Minute Manager was updated to reflect the changing workplace. The key lessons still resonate today. If you apply these three secrets of the one-minute manager, you and your team will complete goals with more ease and...
Status quo noun -‘kwo: the current situation: the way things are now
“One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion” –Voltaire
The quote from Voltaire challenges us to not fall prey to the...
This year is the first time in history that open jobs have surpassed the number of available people to fill them. This phenomenon has been predicted since early 2000, so no one should be surprised. Luckily there are things that your organization...
I don’t know many businesses that would be able to survive a $2.8M EEOC settlement for bad hiring practices. Would yours?
That’s what happened to Target a few weeks ago. Luckily they will survive and eventually fix the issues they had using...
Most of us know that there was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. And most likely you know that the area and buildings are in various stages of being rebuilt or have opened. If you look at how the new One World...
Starting and building a business is never easy. A lot of variables determine which businesses will be successful and which ones will fail. The Small Business Administration figures show that 80% of new business will fail in the first year. Of...
As a business goes through the different stages of growth, the leader of that business will be faced with operating as a Visionary, Manager or Specialists all at the same time. The critical challenge here is if you don’t know what stage of...
Your company has an open position. You have interviewed many people and had several rounds of vetting their skills. You think you are ready to make an offer to one of these candidates.
Stop and ask yourself: Does the person fit the job?
The only...
By: Jay S. Levin
The more talk on emotional intelligence and emotional quotient (EQ) I hear – the more upside down I find the thinking on it to be.
Don’t get me wrong; understanding the importance of EQ and its place in our personal lives and...
