Elevating procurement to support overall enterprise goals
A procurement professional’s planning skills offer a lot more value to the overall strategic direction of a company than what it may seem like on the surface.
Five tips to identify a market for online global expansion
If you’re conducting business online and are looking for new growth opportunities, it’s time to venture beyond your comfort zone. Savvy companies are expanding into international markets with authentically localized websites.
Make anger your servant, not your master
Make anger your servant, and not your master, Think before you speak by asking yourself these two questions.
Dealing with family rifts in a family business
Every family has its struggles, tensions, and dysfunctions. But what happens when there is a shared business venture, family board of directors, foundation, or a large inheritance at stake?
Behind each success there is significance — and that significance reigns supreme
I try to focus on significance by focusing on the success of others, but I can only be successful at that when there are others of significance enabling and encouraging me. It is a continuous circle.
Be an inspiration every day
By demonstrating your leadership to your staff without micromanaging, you can inspire your employees to be their most authentic selves.
The Book Report: Superforecasting
Jerry McLaughlin is a seasoned entrepreneur who reads a lot of books useful to business leaders. Periodically, he’ll share his thoughts about a book that really stood out. This month, Jerry explores “Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction” by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner. What is this book about? This is the true story […]
Women making strides in corporate world, but not there yet
Last fall, PriceWaterhouseCoopers released a survey revealing that only 35 percent of men who sit on corporate boards of some of the largest U.S. companies think gender diversity of boards is important. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, white male board members just don’t believe diversity — of any kind — makes their companies stronger. […]
Why it's OK to turn off your phone at night
If you are reading this sentence on a mobile device, you probably aren’t surprised that your technology is already obsolete. Somehow, the bauble vendors — those that have convinced us that before the phone, nobody made money or fell in love — have led us to believe that we will lose our competitive edge in […]
Successfully hiring key people takes real work
One of my favorite presentations is titled “You’re Not the Person I Hired” (which I must attribute to recruiter and Vistage speaker Barry Deutsch). The phenomenon happens far too often, and for several reasons. It’s never good for this to happen, but when hiring “key” people it’s especially costly for a young company. Essentially, it […]