by Kevin Brimhall | Aug 16, 2010 | Book Summaries, Personal Improvement
The author’s subtitle to his book is "A Surprising Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way" and his stated goal is to help you enjoy yourself more each day. The premise is that we all have a "vile, vicious, villainous, insufferably bully...
by Kevin Brimhall | Aug 1, 2010 | Sales / Growth
Have you ever watched a movie and immediately known that some parts of it would stick with you for a long time? That happened to me when I first saw the critically-acclaimed Glengarry GlenRoss, a 1992 movie about four real estate salesmen who use mostly deceptive...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jul 17, 2010 | Book Summaries, Organizational Excellence
The author’s subtitle to her book is "How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love", and she addresses topics such as visioning, driving change, upping enthusiasm, and eliminating gossip. Emmerich’s premise is that there are actually...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jul 8, 2010 | Organizational Excellence
A few weeks ago, on a sweltering Sunday afternoon, my son decided that he wanted to sell lemonade. Not wanting to stifle his entrepreneurial spirit, I agreed to help…even though it was nearly 100 degrees outside and I was pretty comfortable inside in the air...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jun 29, 2010 | Personal Improvement
STRIVING. PERFORMING. ACHIEVING. Those three words say a lot. When you STRIVE, you work hard and exert yourself, often against the tide of conventional opinion, competition, and your own complacency, doubts and fears. When you PERFORM, you are using your skills and...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jun 15, 2010 | Book Summaries, Organizational Excellence
We have been exploring employee engagement these last few months. The issue is that employee disengagement is increasing, and this is not a recent trend or one driven solely by the poor economy. Sarah Van of Raleigh Consulting Group informed me recently that more...
by Kevin Brimhall | May 27, 2010 | Organizational Excellence
Last month, we discussed the increasing disengagement of employees in the American workforce, some of the drivers, as well as the high cost of employee turnover. (read that article here) As further evidence of this issue, David Vogelpohl of Excellerate Solutions tells...
by Kevin Brimhall | May 18, 2010 | Book Summaries, Leadership
Based on a five-year research project, Good to Great answers the question: "Can a good company become a great company and, if so, how?" In this book, Jim Collins teaches that companies can make the leap to outperform the market leaders. And although his Good...
by Kevin Brimhall | May 7, 2010 | Organizational Excellence
Related to my recent blogs and newsletter articles regarding employee engagement and the changing demographic of the American workforce, there was an interesting study published this past October in the medical journal The Lancet. The study, entitled "Ageing...
by Kevin Brimhall | Apr 16, 2010 | Organizational Excellence
I apologize. You’ve seen the reports and read the headlines. You may even be experiencing it first-hand. Some optimism has begun to creep into our collective conversation about the economy. Signs related to orders and production rates, the stock market at a...
