by Kevin Brimhall | Dec 4, 2010 | Leadership
It’s important to stay in touch with the topic of leadership in business. A wonderful source for me is my network at the Wharton School of Business, my alma mater. The professors and staff at Wharton do amazing work and I wanted to share with you an interesting...
by Kevin Brimhall | Oct 26, 2010 | Book Summaries, Leadership
It seems strange, I realize, that a hospital would need to be healed. But that was the situation that existed a decade ago at Southeast Georgia Health System. Costs were out of line with revenues, employee morale was awful, doctors weren’t happy, and the...
by Kevin Brimhall | Sep 29, 2010 | Book Summaries, Leadership
The book’s subtitle is “A Leadership Fable” and it tells the story of a talented and fairly successful CEO who also runs terribly ineffective meetings, negatively impacting the business’ performance and results. Lencioni, best-selling author of...
by Kevin Brimhall | Sep 10, 2010 | Leadership
An executive recently lamented that she and her company had far too many projects going on. All of them were important, she said, but insufficient progress was being made on most. In fact, she described her company as being "very good at getting things 80%...
by Kevin Brimhall | May 18, 2010 | Book Summaries, Leadership
Based on a five-year research project, Good to Great answers the question: "Can a good company become a great company and, if so, how?" In this book, Jim Collins teaches that companies can make the leap to outperform the market leaders. And although his Good...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jan 25, 2010 | Leadership
It seems as though every business-related book, blog or speech these days is titled to emphasize the unique economic times that we are experiencing. Titles like: "Selling When the Economy Stinks", "Finding a Job in Turbulent Times", "Marketing...
