June 2009
4 posts
“The problem for leadership is not confusing praise for progress with declaration...”
– Tom Martin, CEO of NextScreen in Austin (and my former boss) in a recent email exchange. His recent column on GM’s next wave of reinvention is must-read stuff.
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Being Patient While Being Awesome
It is through videos like this that I’m reminded it just takes time to see something through. This is one awesome feat at the Sasquatch Music Festival last month at The Gorge in Washington:
The half-naked dancing man made it happen, didn’t he? It can teach us a lot, but without rehashing a dozen age old cliches about sticktoitofness, the real takeaway here is that sometimes you...
Venice, Beirut
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Interview Advice From Someone Who Has Made Hiring...
Over the last ten years I’ve interviewed a few dozen candidates for jobs, some of them basic entry-level jobs and some of them interdependent manager positions. I made a few good moves and really loafed on a few, too. I’ve developed a few best practices as a result.
Learn from my mistakes and use the following:
Group Buy-in Have your candidate meet multiple members of your team (separately)....