by Kevin Brimhall | Sep 29, 2014 | Book Summaries, Leadership
In this book by leadership guru Patrick Lencioni, the CEO of a San Francisco-based company is struggling in his first year at the helm. Unbeknownst to him, what is required is not a review of marketing, strategic planning, and finance. Rather, the situation requires...
by Kevin Brimhall | Aug 26, 2014 | Goals / Purpose
You hear a lot of talk about the power that goal setting has on your ability to achieve success as you define it. There is no doubt that this is true, but it needs to go one step further. Having a goal setting process will not make you successful in itself. It is more...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jul 30, 2014 | Organizational Excellence
Note: This resource is part of our Moving the Bar in Your Career and Your Life, a unique approach to professional development series: Optimizing Employee Performance. Click here to see the entire series. In part one of this article, we discussed how providing a...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jul 15, 2014 | Organizational Excellence
Note: This resource is part of our Moving the Bar in Your Career and Your Life, a unique approach to professional development series: Optimizing Employee Performance. Click here to see the entire series. Why do people leave their jobs? Is it because of money?...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jun 28, 2014 | Leadership
Successful leaders are individuals with high levels of personal power. Understanding the difference between personal power and granted authority is a significant distinction. Many people have the tendency to use the words authority and power interchangeably; however,...
by Kevin Brimhall | May 24, 2014 | Personal Improvement
In follow-up to Part 1: Why Businesses Fail Dr. Paul Nutt of Ohio State University conducted more than two decades of research, with hundreds of organizations, on why business decisions go awry. He discovered three key reasons why 50 percent of decisions fail: 1. More...
by Kevin Brimhall | May 13, 2014 | Personal Improvement
“Ego is the invisible line item on every company’s profit and loss statement.” – David Marcum and Steven Smith in egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability), Fireside, 2007 Fifty-three percent of businesspeople...
by Kevin Brimhall | Apr 28, 2014 | Book Summaries, Personal Improvement
Note: This resource is part of our Moving the Bar in Your Career and Your Life, a unique approach to professional development series: Effective Communication and Constructive Conflict. Click here to see the entire series. After more than a few folks...
by Kevin Brimhall | Apr 18, 2014 | Book Summaries, Personal Improvement
The authors define a Crucial Conversation as a discussion between two or more people where (1) stakes are high, (2) opinions vary, and (3) emotions run high. Examples frequently involve money, relationships, job performance, politics, parenting, health, chores,...
by Kevin Brimhall | Apr 9, 2014 | Organizational Excellence
Congratulations, you’ve made a great hiring decision and your new employee is ready to start work. The next step is probably "orientation," where they will spend the first day or two filling out paperwork and learning about the company – usually...
