Not Everyone Can Get Results Through Others… Is Co-Management the Solution?
There’s a question we ask everyone we hire. It’s worth asking yourself as well: “Do you prefer to get results through others, or would you rather get results through your own efforts?” Many people think it’s a trick question. Like we are trying to figure out who is...
What Makes a Good Non-Profit Leader?
It was an informal gathering of board members, and the conversation went from sports to kids in college and to the progress of their business. Harmless. Neutral. And then someone said: “This might be a little delicate, but it feels like we have a leadership problem...
Stop Wasting Your MGO’s Time!
You wouldn’t…. Have the pilot of the airplane using their time to clean the plane after every flight. Why? Because that is a misuse of their time. A better use of a pilot’s time after the flight is to prepare for the next flight, etc. Have a surgeon doing a bunch of...
Accountability Is the Silver Bullet
For years, I really didn’t like someone following up and asking me if I did something I said I was going to do. But, while I didn’t like it, I appreciated it, because having people in my life to hold me accountable to things has made me successful at my work. Ask...TOP RATED PODCAST
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