The Hotel General Manager - The Complexity of Leadership in a 2.0 World.
GMs have always had to be exceptional multi taskers – managing managers in multiple disciplines |
Are You at the Mercy of Your Workforce.
This bias that exists in some companies is almost as though admitting that employees are the most precious of corporate assets will lead to an anarchy on which owners and managers will fall at the mercy of the workforce |
The Best Way to Handle a Power Struggle.
My flight from New York to Paris was delayed — maybe it would be canceled — and the passengers at the gate were frustrated |
Global Update: Who's Where and Doing What - June 2010.
Global update of who is moving where and from where - keep track of old colleagues and friends or find lost ones, brought to you by The Boutique Search Firm |
Employee Incompetence or is it AADD.
AADD – Adult Attention Deficit Disorder is often difficult to understand and this is especially true when it exists in one of your key employees |
Setting Strategic Direction.
Vision, strategy, and tactics defining and using the three tools of leadership - You’re so proud of your new vision statement; it sounds nice, inspiring, even but the vision is useless unless it can direct action |
Body Language Mistakes Women Leaders Make.
There are two sets of body language cues that followers look for in leaders: warmth (empathy, likeability, caring) and authority (power, credibility, status) |
How to Reinvent Yourself ~ Tips for Getting Started.
Have you ever noticed that once you get back a sense of passion and direction in your life, then somehow financial, relationship, career and health problems seem to lessen or vanish completely? |
What if Your Boss a Jerk?
The most memorable comment a prospective employee ever said to me during an interview - 'I accomplished these things (referring to their resume) and I worked for a boss that I couldn’t stand |
Humor: The Missing Link.
For many of us, work has become a place where things aren’t very funny; often the first thing to go when the pressure is on is the very thing that helps us last the distance: humor! What is it about humor that makes life easier to live? W... |
Global Update: Who's Where and Doing What - May 2010.
Global update of who is moving where and from where - keep track of old colleagues and friends or find lost ones, brought to you by The Boutique Search Firm |
Hiring is NOT Easy.
Interviewing techniques to improve your success - Interview Objectives: The first thing we need to establish before we go through any interviews are the objectives of the selection process |
Top Mistakes: Using Job Boards.
One of my Linkedin friends, Bill Holland, has written a great set of Top 10 Mistakes articles on Ready, Set, Hired, and I thought this one on using job boards was great |
Leadership and the 'Wolf Philosophy'.
After studying the wolf and deciding to use the wolf as our company logo I believe that the wolf demonstrates a distinctive relationship to successful leadership in the world of business today |
The No-Drama Rule of Management.
I lay back in the chair, closed my eyes, and almost immediately felt my body relax |
Global Update: Who's Where and Doing What - April 2010.
Global update of who is moving where and from where - keep track of old colleagues and friends or find lost ones, brought to you by The Boutique Search Firm |
How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking.
During a conference call with the executive committee of a nonprofit board on which I sit I decided to send an email to a client |
A Two-Step Plan for Changing Your Bad Habits.
I was on my cell talking with someone about something — I can't remember who or what anymore — as I ushered my three children toward our minivan, parked across the street from our apartment |
Are You a Real Leader or Just an Imitation.
Position and title may give you power but power in itself does not make you a 'Real Leader', to become a Real Leader there are specific skill sets that you must understand and master |
Communication - Improving Your Writing & E-mail Skills.
Effective communication is one of the most difficult skills to learn, this is especially true because the majority of us have abandoned the old fashion person to person, face to face communication that we all had to use in the 70’s and 80’s |
Do you Sabotage Your Own Change Initiatives?
Tom was really frustrated |
What Acting Taught me About Reputation.
My first acting experience has given me a profound appreciation for how we build reputation (or 'personal brand,' to use the 21st century parlance) |
Why Your Looks Will Matter More, Thanks to the Internet.
I'm not a vain person, but I looked hideous, I scared myself, my sorry image wasn't staring back at me from a bathroom mirror but from my Apple laptop |
Global Update: Who's Where and Doing What - March 2010.
Global update of who is moving where and from where - keep track of old colleagues and friends or find lost ones, brought to you by The Boutique Search Firm |
How to Ask for a Reference Letter, Part II: The Template.
In a recent post on How to Ask for a Reference Letter which gave three steps for asking for (and getting!) a great letter of recommendation |
Surviving the Narcissist Leader.
CEOs or Presidents, who attain positions of power, reach these positions for a variety of reasons |
Accountability - The Secret Ingredient to Execution.
We all 'Talk the Talk', we understand that we must introduce accountability into the organization if we have any hope of achieving our objectives |
Sit Up Straight and Pay Attention!
Several years ago, I read a fascinating article about a body language experiment that was conduced by a group of marketing students attending a major university |
Global Update: Who's Where and Doing What - Feb 2010.
Global update of who is moving where and from where - keep track of old colleagues and friends or find lost ones, brought to you by The Boutique Search Firm |
Social Media: A Boon or a Bust for Candidates and Employers?
According to a study conducted by Harris Interactive for CareerBuilder, 45 percent of employers questioned are using social networks to screen job candidates |
Staff Competition in China.
This feature is not about the annual football match between the chef team and the engineers, nor which server sold the most Wine of the Month, this is about fierce competition among hotels to attract the best people |
Why Women Are the Biggest Emerging Market
What's the biggest emerging market of them all? I'll give you a hint: The answer isn't geographic but demographic, the answer is women |
Why Leadership Development in Asia Is Better Than in Europe.
A shift in leadership development has occurred, while it used to be that American and European companies had cornered the market on developing the leaders of tomorrow, our latest round of research shows that Europe is now second to organiza... |
Pygmalion Leadership.
Pygmalion in the Classroom, one of the most controversial publications in the history of educational research, shows how a teacher’s expectations can motivate student achievement |
Managing Myself: A Direction of One's Own.
There is no shortage of advice out there on how to achieve your goals and at the time of this writing, a Google search on "how to climb the corporate ladder" yields 2,000,000 results |
Having It Your Way.
Burger King is not necessarily the only place you can get it 'your way', we believe that it's possible to have a more productive and committed work force and no union at the same time; It definitely is not a case of 'either |
No Job is Safe.
Companies compete for customers, employees compete for jobs - When the economy is bad, competition heats up |
Global Update: Who's Where and Doing What - Jan 2010.
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Real Leaders Don't Do Focus Groups.
Apple is famous for not engaging in the focus-grouping that defines most business product and marketing strategy |
Forward Looking Leaders Know When to Step Back.
'Poor managers are like vampires |
Lone Wolf Leaders Just Don’t Get It.
Success today is created by caring about more than profitability and growth; growth and profitability are created by employees |
Management by Imagination.
The perception that good management is closely linked to good measurement runs deep |
Global Update: Who's Where and Doing What - Dec 2009.
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Carpenters, Fancy French Restaurants, Backstage, and Your Career.
One of my favorite stories is about a man who has a creak in his house; for years he has tried one way or another to fix the creak, but every single time he walks through the old house it still makes that annoying squeaky sound |
Maybe You're the Reason Your Job Is Boring.
If you are finding your job a little boring, you aren't alone |
Personal Branding: The Key to Thrive in Today’s Marketplace.
Today’s employees need to manage their own careers and proactively seek resources such as coaching to achieve desirable outcomes |
The Impostor Leaders.
'My boss really hates me' - Those were his opening words and then, clearly unhappy, this likeable and competent if somewhat timid young manager proceeded to describe the catalogue of abuse he suffered every day from his boss |
How to Survive and Succeed in Your Job.
Working in a company or any organization is often competitive and scary - The reason that it can be so scary is because around you there are so many unknowns, and there is so much information that you do not have access to |
Successful Managers Focus on Strengths Not Weaknesses.
Let me ask you a simple question - what do you believe a manager's job is all about? What is it that managers do on a day to day basis? Now, if you're a manager, or you probably work for one, then you'd almost certainly be able to list a w... |
Women CEOs: Why So Few?
Nancy McKinstry, CEO of Wolters Kluwer, a Dutch publishing and information company, recalled holding a strategy meeting in which the press in Holland wrote that she wore a suit that was the same color as the KLM flight attendants' |
Don't Take Chances with First Impressions.
Are you aware of how quickly people will form an opinion about you? A few years ago there was a television commercial for a major health insurance company |
