Blog Content for COOs & Leaders
Easy Steps to Turn PR Into a Profit Driver
When I say PR, what's the first thing you think of? Is it significant companies trying to cover their...
Use A Rifle To Find Top Leaders
If you're contemplating the use of a search firm, chances are you are looking for top leaders to join...
Onboarding A New COO: Part 2 – The Ripple Effect
If you've been following along on our blog, you'll remember my last post, where I talked about step one...
Onboarding A New COO: Part 1 – Resist Letting Them Do Their Job
We all know that recruiting and hiring the perfect COO for your company is not an easy task. It takes a...
Tips for COOs – #1 The Skip Level Meeting
A skip-level meeting is when a COO skips over one of their direct reports, like a VP of marketing, to...
Interviews Should Be Intense
What questions do you ask in interviews? "What's your biggest fault?" "Tell me about a time you...
Why the Smartest CEOs Act Like the Dumbest People
The smartest CEOs are vulnerable, open to hearing what they don't know and are always trying to learn....
Profit Sharing Works!
If you're running a wildly successful and profitable business, don't hide it. I talked to a business...
It’s My Future (And I’ll Dream Big If I Want To)
What do you see in your future? I've looked into my future, and I like what I see. No, I didn't go see...
Build Your Company Like a Jigsaw Puzzle
Build Your Company Like a Jigsaw Puzzle Consider doing this for your next quarterly or annual strategic...
Do you KAMP? Your Revenue Growth Depends On It
In the early days building 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, we had a franchisee that was struggling. They just weren't...
Here is Why You Need a Vivid Vision
Vision statements and mission statements are useless. They don't work. They have never worked. They...
How to Save CEOs From Themselves
Help save CEOs from themselves! Most entrepreneurs suffer from what I call A.D.O.S., and it stands for:...
Fire Some of Your Customers
Why would you fire your customers? Eighty percent of your results come from twenty percent of your...
Planning a Corporate Retreat – Part 2
Corporate retreats are often intended for purposes of general relaxation, team-building, and...
Planning a Corporate Retreat – Part 1
The quality of relationships between the employer and employees, and among the employees themselves,...
The Greatest Interview Questions, Ever.
I'm about to give you one of the greatest interview questions you can ever ask. With one simple query,...
Recruiting…If You Build It Great, They Will Come
Any time I do keynote speaking events in a city that isn't New York or London, a lot of leaders...
Why You Need to Visualize Your Company’s Future
Why is visualizing your company's future so important? It's just images in your head. It can't do...
Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill
Are you a COO? Guess what? The old adage of, ‘hire for attitude, train for skill' doesn't work anymore....