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...
by Kevin Brimhall | Apr 6, 2010 | Book Summaries, Goals / Purpose
In "How to Become CEO. The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization," author Jeffrey J. Fox expands on 75 factors to help a person become the head honcho, the top banana, the big cheese, the boss. I’ve selected 21 from Fox’s list to...
by Kevin Brimhall | Mar 27, 2010 | Book Summaries, Organizational Excellence
Zapp! is not a recent book. In fact, it was written 21 years ago. But its concepts about employee empowerment hold up very well in today’s challenging work environment. Employee motivation is often a difficult idea to truly grasp, yet alone to influence and...
by Kevin Brimhall | Mar 22, 2010 | Personal Improvement
Author and international expert, Ed Oakley, is a master at asking truly effective questions. In his book, Enlightened Leadership, he describes what makes effective questions, effective. Here are a few concepts and excerpts from Ed’s book on this important...
by Kevin Brimhall | Mar 16, 2010 | Personal Improvement
Public speaking is one form of communication and is, quite simply, the process of presenting your thoughts and feelings in a meaningful way. There is a often a perception that only people involved in sales, marketing, or mass media need to learn public speaking....
by Kevin Brimhall | Mar 4, 2010 | Book Summaries, Organizational Excellence
Customers for Keeps. 8 Powerful Strategies to Turn Customers into Friends and Keep Them Forever is a very comprehensive book that compares customers to your friends, and how relating to customers as you would a good friend can result in more new and repeat business...
by Kevin Brimhall | Feb 24, 2010 | Personal Improvement
By changing how you think about your tasks, you can create a better return on investment for your time. Do you have more ‘to-dos’ than time in your day? Is lack of time preventing you from reaching more of your goals? If you had more time, what would it...
by Kevin Brimhall | Feb 16, 2010 | Motivation / Inspiration
The year was 2006. In April, my father died of prostate cancer after a very tough struggle, and I was having difficulty dealing with him being gone. He was only 70 years old. A month earlier, in March, Mildred, my favorite great-aunt, had also passed away. She was...
