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Growth pains Five years in, your business is growing at an unprecedented rate. However, with growth, you are no longer directly involved in the hiring process and subsequently, don’t have the personal relationships of loyalty, which were especially important with entry level hires. Finding and keeping the kind of people who made your business initially successful is increasingly difficult. You suspect the problem is beyond your ability to identify and assess, and your insti

68% of business leaders believe that culture is a source of competitive advantage but fewer than 10% report success in creating a high-functioning organization, according to a survey of 365 executives in Europe, Asia, and North America. Why are so few successful? Here’s what you need to know: the two things an organization must have to be competitive are resilience and ingenuity . Resilience ensures you have the means to deliver value in today’s dynamic marketplace, desp

As evident in the ‘great resignation,’ people are leaving their jobs in record numbers - making Peter Drucker’s prophetic statement 30 years ago, based on the advancement of the ‘knowledge worker’: “The lifelong workforce contract has been irrevocably broken.” What Drucker couldn’t have predicted was the tsunami impact COVID has had on the workplace. A side effect of the tsunami, however, is a convincing argument that people can be productive working remotely. Drucker

Once a year, most of us schedule a physical. We do it without giving it a second thought because it ‘just makes good sense’. We go because we want to detect anything unusual, before it evolves into something more serious. Wouldn’t it seem logical for business executives to want to do the same for detecting dysfunctional organizational issues before they become toxic? Today’s physicians rely on data analytics from tests done on blood and other body functions because what c

What the Oakland A’s accomplished in 2002 was just short of miraculous. Winning twenty games in a row broke a record that stood since the 1947 Yankees. They followed that up by winning the American League West. What shocked the baseball world is how they did it – fielding a team of overlooked, ragtag players whose payroll was one third that of the Yankees. Was it miracle or a cunning strategy that you could also benefit from, even if you don't follow baseball or sports in gen