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Best of CoBiz: The best leaders never self-promote
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from business performance improvement expert Larry Valant’s book, “Stop Breaking These Rules! 100 Hard-Hitting Truths for Business Integrity and Performance.” Selfishness and ego driven […]
Best of CoBiz: Do the hardest thing first
Adopt the mindset, “I will deliver… every time!” Delivering what is expected, every time, is the major ingredient of success that results from an unyielding determination that is absolutely within […]
Best of CoBiz: Pay people what they’re worth!
Editor’s note: Here is another valuable excerpt from the new success book by national business consultant Laurence B. Valant and partner Gayle W. Hustad, “Lead and Manage! The definitive guide […]
Best of CoBiz: Effective leaders make plan
(Editor’s note: Here is another valuable excerpt from the new success book by national business consultant Laurence B. Valant and partner Gayle W. Hustad, “Lead and Manage! The definitive guide […]
Best of CoBiz: Clean up after yourself!
(Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from business performance improvement expert Larry Valant’s book, Stop Breaking These Rules! 100 Hard-Hitting Truths for Business Integrity and Performance.) Be aware of the […]
Best of CoBiz: Create accountability
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from business performance improvement expert Larry Valant’s book, Stop Breaking These Rules! 100 Hard-Hitting Truths for Business Integrity and Performance. Organization planning is 75 […]
Best of CoBiz: How to be an effective manager
Management is the process through which the strategies are executed to achieve the agreed upon, quantitative objectives. While to manage means to bring about successfully, our definition is extended to […]
Best of CoBiz: People don’t leave companies….
Top management determines and sustains corporate culture. Top management, that is the CEO or the general manager and their management teams, determine and sustain corporate culture through their beliefs, actions, […]
Best of CoBiz: Are you working for passion or a paycheck?
(Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from business performance improvement expert Larry Valant’s book, “Stop Breaking These Rules! 100 Hard-Hitting Truths for Business Integrity and Performance.” ) Truth is the […]
Best of CoBiz: It’s hard to look smart with bad numbers
(Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from business performance improvement expert Larry Valant’s book, Stop Breaking These Rules! 100 Hard-Hitting Truths for Business Integrity and Performance.) Measure progress to plan […]
Best of CoBiz: Get the elephants off the conference room table!
It has been my experience that the most frequently ignored elephants are clearly apparent yet unresolved people, management and organizational issues. It follows then that these people centered issues, which management refuses to identify and address, inevitably lead to other weaknesses, and are t...
Can you pass the Hallway Test?
When confronted with making assignments, measuring and appraising performance and then determining merit or promotional increases, an arbitrary approach to compensation will feel like walking through a mine field. And if you try to save pennies when awarding salary increases, you will suffer highe...
