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 | Apr 6, 2010 | Book Summaries, Goals / Purpose
In "How to Become CEO. The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization," author Jeffrey J. Fox expands on 75 factors to help a person become the head honcho, the top banana, the big cheese, the boss. I’ve selected 21 from Fox’s list to...
by Kevin Brimhall | Mar 27, 2010 | Book Summaries, Organizational Excellence
Zapp! is not a recent book. In fact, it was written 21 years ago. But its concepts about employee empowerment hold up very well in today’s challenging work environment. Employee motivation is often a difficult idea to truly grasp, yet alone to influence and...
by Kevin Brimhall | Oct 30, 2009 | Leadership
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. If someone were to ask you to take MORE time to do something,...
by Kevin Brimhall | Feb 6, 2009 | Leadership
A friend and colleague of mine, Tammy Kohl, who is president of Resource Associates Corp. in Reading, PA, spoke recently at a gathering of business coaches in San Antonio on the subject of new team leaders. These are people who often have been the "super...
