“Why should I hire you?” A hiring manager may not ask you this question directly but every question you answer in the interview should contribute to helping them understand why you’re the best person for the job. “Stay focused on why your background makes you an ideal candidate and tell them how you are going to…
People are the most important asset of any company. Companies that treat people as valuable investments have strong cultures of high morale, innovative confidence, maximum productivity, genuinely energetic leadership. It is generally seen that the very top people of truly great organizations are the most humble, the most reverent, the most open, the most teachable,…
To carry you through the weekend… Achieving your dream life doesn’t just take smarts or ambition. It requires only eight traits. Think of them as your happiness list, and use it to get more out of life. Everyone wants to be happy. And successful. Trouble is, happiness and success are so amorphous, so hard to…
A company is only as good as its employees, and those employees are really only as good as the resources put into them. When workers perform poorly, it reflects badly on the business and affects the bottom line, but when you have a high turnover rate with dozens or hundreds of employees making the same…
All we have is our hearts and minds. If our hearts and minds aren’t taken care of, what kind of company are we going to be. We need to create an environment where peoples’ hearts and minds thrive. ~ Tee Green, CEO Greenway Health Compassion. The inclusion of compassion in the workplace in companies large and small is…
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~Aristotle Leadership is learned behavior that becomes unconscious and automatic over time. For example, leaders can make several important decisions about an issue in the time it takes others to understand the question. Many people wonder how leaders know how…
“A leader’s job is not to do the work for others, it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.” – Simon Sinek Most organizations promote employees into managerial positions based on operational technical competencies. Many times though, while these technical traits…
Millennials are going to make major shifts in corporations over the next decade and most people aren’t ready for the amount of change that’s coming. By 2025, millennials will account for 75% of the global workforce and by next year, they will account for 36% of the American workforce. At some companies like Accenture and…
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.” Steve Jobs Hiring people with the right skill sets for a job is no longer the most important factor in determining success of a company… managers must focus on…
As a child, Muhammed Ali boasted of one day becoming the greatest heavyweight champion of the world. He remembers running through the streets of downtown Louisville, KY, telling locals that he was going to return a champion boxer, win Olympic gold and become the greatest professional boxer of all time. He proclaimed at an early age that he…
It was a thrilling conclusion to the 2016 NCAA Championship as the world watched the Villanova Wildcats triumph in the final game Monday evening in Houston, Texas. With just 4.7 seconds left on the clock and the game tied at 74, Senior Captain Ryan Arcidiacono was dribbling up the court to what was to be the…
Clarity precedes mastery (big idea there) and the more clearly I look for what I want, the more powerfully I generate that result in my life. We become excellent by doing excellent things. Over and over and over until they become a part of our wiring. Small baby steps. Daily and continuous micro improvements. Steady…