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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...
Best of CoBiz: I love you but you make me crazy
(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.) The 80/20 rule says […]
If you pay peanuts, you’ll get monkeys
(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.) RI is the superior […]
Leadership & management: So misunderstood
(Editor’s note: Here is another valuable excerpt from the Laurence B. Valant/Gayle W. Hustad book, “Lead and Manage! The definitive guide for getting the results you want.”) One would think […]
The sixth leadership fundamental
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 […]
The fifth leadership fundamental
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 […]
The fourth leadership fundamental
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 […]
The next two leadership fundamentals
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 […]
The first leadership fundamental
Having played college basketball and later being blessed with two sons who were athletically gifted, I did my share of coaching basketball during their school years. As anyone who has […]
