How to Keep Your New Business Alive

I’ve done it and it was very difficult. Over 90% fail for a variety of reasons. I learned s [...]

Why Nobody Likes Performance Appraisals

When I spoke at a Human Resources conference, I asked a room full of HR professionals if they do [...]

There are many performance appraisal methods out there, but let’s face it: few of them work. How [...]

My first office at 3M was in the engineering center in St. Paul, MN. The engineering center was p [...]

A toxic employee is someone who is working against their employer. This occurs when the employee [...]

I have an observation. Rarely do most of us disagree on the endgame or final destination, but the [...]

To be clear, growing a business costs money. While this is not a secret, many business owners for [...]

In a recent Leadership Mastermind, we walked participants through the creation of a Personal Succ [...]

In the book Good to Great, Jim Collins talks about the importance of understanding what he calls [...]