The time has come. Timing in the sense that I'm personally ready to build a remarkable national leadership recruiting and market research company. Timing in that during dramatic change and struggle for many businesses and industries, great things emerge. We see new companies and new careers as well as long time companies learning how to be innovative again. This landscape is part of the new economy ...
Compensation has always been a great indicator of fit between a company need and candidate capabilities. For a start up, this equation indicates the true economy as closely related to the founder and candidate. When I'm asked how much a start up CEO should be paid my answer is "I don't know". Investigating how much a founder is willing to and can pay for the value of the CEO discipline is half of the equation; the other half is how much and what type of compensation structure the best candidates ...
Recently my Toastmaster friend Jim gave a speech on Reticence and asked us the question, “what happened to it?” He did a great job of showing how it has apparently disappeared as he shared the story of the flight where the lady (a stranger) next to him told the story of her urinary tract infection. Yuck. Or the other gentleman who asked him about the military’s “Don’t ask don’t tell” policy, and then proceeded to regale Jim with the stories of his son’s adventures as a young gay man. TMI – Too ...
The other day I called a software company to discuss an upgrade to their service offering that I purchase. They passed me though 2 lead qualifiers (bad move guys) and then said a sales person would call me back. Brooke called me back from her mobile phone in an area that had a poor signal. Literally every other sentence was dropped. I finally told her to call me from a land-line. What did she do? She moved to a new location and called me back. She was not going to be back at her desk ...
Many entrepreneurs have unique abilities to move fast on opportunities but have many questions when it comes to control of the mission. “How should I finance my start-up?” and "How do I recruit the right people?" are commonly asked questions. There is significant due diligence involved in the answer. You will not find YOUR answer online because your situation is as unique as you are. What you can find is good advice from what questions to ask yourself before you seek the right investors for your mission. ...
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