by Kevin Brimhall | Jul 29, 2009 | Leadership
1. Inadequate or no management system. An overall system to operate the business is essential. Flying by the seat of your pants is no way to optimize results and get the most out of your people. 2. Lack of purpose, vision and mission. It’s like trying to put a...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jun 10, 2009 | Book Summaries, Leadership
Note: This resource is part of our Moving the Bar in Your Career and Your Life, a unique approach to professional development series: Optimizing Employee Performance. Click here to see the entire series. Intrigued by the title for some time, this book came highly...
by Kevin Brimhall | Feb 6, 2009 | Leadership
A friend and colleague of mine, Tammy Kohl, who is president of Resource Associates Corp. in Reading, PA, spoke recently at a gathering of business coaches in San Antonio on the subject of new team leaders. These are people who often have been the "super...
by Kevin Brimhall | Dec 3, 2008 | Book Summaries, Leadership
In 2007, my good friend and colleague David Herdlinger wrote this book to help leaders at different levels of experience and position within an organization more effectively lead themselves and others. While weaving in some of the...
by Kevin Brimhall | Nov 17, 2008 | Leadership
The popular thinking is that leaders are born that way, that it’s in their DNA to be able to effectively lead others. It presumably holds, then, that if one does not possess certain personality traits or characteristics, then...
