Excerpted from the book on mindful business management, Business Black Belt “Hire smart or manage tough.” ~ Lou Adler, executive recruiter If you’re betting the farm on key employees, you need all the clues you can get. Here are a few questions to add to your interview repertoire. Tell me what you’ve…
Before you hire anyone just to get something done, take some time to plan what you need done and who you need to hire. Excerpted from the book on mindful business management, Business Black Belt “There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability…
You know when something goes wrong or things just aren’t working out… I’ve found that, rather than fight a problem, make excuses, or blame others… I wonder, “What is the lesson to learn?” What is MY lesson to learn here? So, rather than continue struggling (doing the same thing… over and over…), how might I…
At risk of splitting a hair too many times… There are a variety of decisions we all need to make, yet there is one category, if simplified even further, may ease our burden with all the decisions we face. They’re simple, but can be very hard to make: Yes / No On / Off Go…
Excerpted from the book on conscious business management, Business Black Belt We are limited more by our own thinking than by reality. This is where I’m coming from as I write this book… I’ve earned a black belt and I’ve built a business. Coincidentally, I started both at about the same time. What’s behind the…