"Leadership" Posts
Teamwork: All Eight Oars In At The Perfect Time
By Ken DiPrima
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships,” said Michael Jordan. Those words, spoken by a six time NBA champion and one of the sports world’s top superstars, apply not only to sports teams, but to almost every endeavor in life.
Winning teams may have at least one superstar on its roster, but how many championship teams are composed of nothing but superstars? Not many, if any, at all. What they all do possess is an organization built on talented players, working as a single unit, executing a well designed plan.
A perfect example of this winning combination is …
‘E’ Is For Excellence
By Ken DiPrima
Anybody who has served at sea with the U.S. Navy is aware of the coveted ‘E’ award. The award stands for Excellence and is awarded, annually, based on a fleet wide competition, which measures the performance of each ship against an established set of rigid standards. By any measurement, it’s a big deal. A very, very, big deal…
The winning ship paints a large white ‘E’ on the bridge bulwarks on both the port and starboard sides of the ship. A ship that wins five consecutive battle efficiency competitions will replace the white ‘E’ with a gold one.
All ships …
Corporate Business Solutions Client Profile: Meet Dave Alwan Of Echo Valley Meats
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Dave likes to share that he’s the third generation in the meat business. His family has been in the food industry since 1947 when his grandfather launched the Alwan and Sons Meat Company, a grocery store and butcher shop in Peoria, IL.
As his father says, being in the food business just made sense—everyone needs to eat. His family also branched out into fast food for a while, opening up one of the first KFC franchises in 1972. By age 11, Dave was learning his knife skills, cutting stew meat and roasts in the butcher shop.
Around age 22, Dave …
The Benefits of Engaged Employees
A relatively new school of management thought, since the 1990’s, is that engaged employees are better employees. There has been some amount of confusion about this softer metric ever since, which this handy infographic by Ceridian helps to clarify—what exactly does engagement mean, anyway?
Nope, It’s Not Employee Happiness
Engagement does not mean employee happiness or satisfaction, although this can be a side-effect of employees feeling engaged (and, therefore, the reason for that common misunderstanding), but rather an employee who is committed to their organization’s goals and objectives.
A better term may be ownership. Engaged employees actually take personal …
Leadership: Is There A Void?
By To determine if a void exists within the many forms of leadership, we must first define what exactly leadership is. Only at that point can it be determined if a void exists and how prevalent that void may be. Once a reasonable conclusion is reached, we can apply this theory to several sectors and come to an understanding of where leadership exists or where it lacks.
There is no reason to go through these exercises, or read further, if a void is uncovered and nothing will be done to fix it. If you define yourself as a leader, or as …
Build Long Term Relationships With Your Employees
“Survival of the fittest” best describes the competitive marketplace in which today’s business attempts to not merely survive, but thrive. A business owner must identify and solve issues regarding the competition for customers and clients on a daily basis. As a business owner, are you overlooking the competition for one of your top resources – your own employees?
Today’s workers have a mindset that is much different from those of previous generations. Simply put, they expect more from their employers–especially when it comes to compensation and work culture. Employers who want to find and keep qualified, motivated, top-performing employees need …
Survivor Style
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By Dan Light as featured in Construction Today
In tumultuous times, leadership skills could be the guiding light to steer your business out of the storm.
Just as basically healthy individuals recover more quickly from illness, so, too, do healthy businesses recover from a few bumps in the road, such as an economic downturn. Among the retrospective measures that reflect the company’s health are items on the balance sheet and income statement, including cash flow, net profit, growth rate, productivity and return on investment rates. Unfortunately, by the time such historical data indicate symptoms of trouble, it may already be …