No matter where you are in your management journey, one thing remains constant—your ability to lead people matters more than just technical expertise. In fact, research shows that 89% of hiring managers believe a lack of soft skills leads to poor hires, yet many managers focus more on hard...
“It’s not personal, it’s strictly business.” That might be true if you’re in business with Michael Corleone, but for everyone else, business is personal. Humans are social animals, after all; We need personal relationships in order to thrive. And since we spend...
Sue Hawkes is a best-selling author, Certified EOS Implementer, and award-winning seminar leader. She is also the CEO of YESS! — her company that helps CEOs and their leadership teams succeed. Her most recent book, Chasing Perfection—Shatter the Illusion; Minimize...
With remote work on the rise, businesses and employees alike are discovering the awesome, unexpected benefits of telecommuting: It's cheaper for employees and employers, absenteeism drops and there's less turnover overall. Productivity often increases, too — but...
Recently, I realized that I’ve been seeing my role of Integrator™ all wrong—and it changed everything about my work. In the fall I attended the Integrator Mastery Forum (IMF), led by Mark Winters, coauthor of Rocket Fuel. I arrived at the full-day workshop thinking...
Some ideas need a second consideration. Jon Gertner’s book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, is one of those reads that takes a culturally-presumed evil and flips our assumptions on their head: maybe a monopoly can be a good...
It’s official: Virtual teams are legit. More and more people are working remotely every year. Nine million people in the U.S. work from home at least half of the time. Almost 50% of all companies have plans to increase their virtual teams, and 37 percent of...