PepsiCo CEO, Indra Nooyi’s Five C’s of Success and How You Can Cultivate Them

Checking out a recent Costco Connection article (yes, random), I ran across a great article on Indra Nooyi where she laid out her 5 C’s of Success: Competence, Courage (and Confidence), Communication, Compass and Coaching.
Seeing as how she’s currently the head of the fourth largest food/beverage companies in the world, I […]

The 5 Traps of Personal Performance Management

Performance management is a problem. More specifically, how most people approach their own performance management is riddled with pitfalls. This is evident with the torrent of self-help and self-management books that have gained popularity, the increased talk of inbox management and especially in the colossal failure of the once heralded term, “multi-tasking.” Everything points to […]

Seeing the Future

How much time do you spend thinking about your company’s future?
Chances are, not much. For the most part, putting out fires and taking
care of the day-to-day tasks consume most of your time. But to be
strategic in your business, you must discover how to spot future
opportunities as soon as possible. Yes, you do need to […]

Coaching for success

Previously in this space, we discussed how business leaders
are increasingly analyzing their abilities to execute on strategy in addition to delivering the strategic vision.
It’s no longer the case that managers alone are expected
to handle the details that turn vision into reality. We encouraged
“coaching for performance” then
and thought enough of the idea to devote another column […]

More planning tips for business owners

In addition to valuing your business and thinking about an exit strategy, here are some additional planning tips for privately-held companies:
Engage all your employees. Don’t leave anyone out of the planning process because in a smaller organization you run the risk of alienating some people. Although you may not think it’s appropriate to include everyone […]

The Face of an Unhappy Company

The sad truth is that unhappy companies all look alike:

A belief that employees are dangerous and lazy. If you treat people as if they’re worthless long enough, eventually they’ll either believe you (and behave accordingly) or they’ll spend all their energy trying to build a paper case that you’re wrong. Either way, your customers (and […]

Who Shall Lead Them?

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is known as the premier leadership position in the corporation.  This leadership position is often the epicenter of actions that can drive organization to success or failure.  How does a corporation deal with leadership problems or drastic changes?  What is the best strategy and organizational mind-set a company can have […]

Six Principles to Great Leadership

Due to the change in the time with continuous economic upheaval, geopolitical turmoil, and technological change, successful managers are those that effectively lead during uncertain times.  During these uncertain times, business leaders should follow these six principles:

Live with integrity and lead by example
Develop a winning strategy or big idea
Build a great management team
Inspire employees […]

Envisioning Your Future

Talk of being a visionary goes hand-in-hand with talk of leadership. An intriguing article from the Futurist, entitled “Envisioning your Future: Imagining Ideal Scenarios,” discusses basically, “a leader’s step-by-step guide to envisioning the future – and communicating it to others”.  This 8 step program has a very simple, yet very useful, fundamental idea.  The idea […]

Professional Sobriety

Leadership must combine Passion with Patience and Professionalism ”Leading a company must be more than a hobby, and certainly more than fun. Leaders must demonstrate realism, maturity, knowledge, and a little wisdom. ‘A distinguishing mark of a ripe human being is his sobriety,’ the sixth-century monk St. Benedict pointed out. He went on: ‘Sober is […]