How to Avoid Hiring Mistakes

How to Avoid Hiring Mistakes

Hiring the right team members is a crucial responsibility for any leader. Over the course of my 30-year career, I’ve made approximately 55 hires with a few of those being bad hires. Determined to learn from these experiences, I did an autopsy of each of those...
Are You an Affirmer or Evaluator?

Are You an Affirmer or Evaluator?

I recently read the book; Balcony People written by Joyce Landorf. It describes the difference between two types of people: Affirmers and Evaluators. Generally, evaluators are judgmental and critical, always looking for the negative in others. Affirmers: Love from the...
How to Make Time an Asset

How to Make Time an Asset

Time will either become an asset or a liability. You make time an asset when you have discipline in your life. Examples of how time becomes an asset:  1.  Study Most people discontinue studying after they complete their formal education. However, when study is a...