If you’ve spent any time hiring and recruiting then you know that when you get a lot of candidates to sift through, disqualifying them can be a big time investment headache. Candidates that lie on their resume have reached appalling numbers, with even the top chap at Yahoo willing to deceive.
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Douglas A Wick
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Save Time Recruiting & Hiring with Topgrading’s SnapShot
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Fri, Jun 8, 2012
Topics: People, A Players, Topgrading
Are you up for another lesson from my bout with Leukemia? This past weekend was challenging. From Saturday morning when I got up it felt I was in a state of inertia. There are days that I gravitate to that; however they are marked for vacations. Intended inertia of a sort.
Topics: Strategic Discipline, patience reduces resistance to change
The last three Strategic Discipline blogs emphasize the importance of getting your culture right. The reward? Businesses that have great cultures grow at an unprecedented pace compared to their competition and the market itself.
Topics: employee engagement, weekly meetings, Organizational Health, The Advantage, Business Culture
The Ideal Growth Tree – Five Must Do’s To Live Your Core Purpose
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, May 28, 2012
As a business coach I’ve discovered there are two opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to why a business doesn’t create a set of ideals, or as Jim Stengel calls it the Brand Ideal.
Topics: Employee Feedback, employee engagement, Strategic Discipline, Core Purpose, Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the Wo, use of energy
Brand Ideals - A 400% ROI - Identify Your Competitive Advantage
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Thu, May 24, 2012
In our last blog Grow Author Jim Stengel “Great Leadership Follow Common Practices” we discussed the five leadership practices great leaders follow and learned: Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.
Topics: Acute Myeloid Luekemia, Business Growth, leadership, Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the Wo, The Advantage, competitive advantage
Grow Author Jim Stengel “Great Leadership Follow Common Practices”
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Sun, May 20, 2012
In Creating the Discipline of The Advantage Patrick Lencioni indicated the single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health. He provides Four Disciplines that companies need to achieve organizational health.
Topics: Discipline, Business Growth, leadership, Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the Wo, One Page Strategic Plan, The Advantage, Brand Ideal
In Your Blindside – The Value of Collective Intelligence we discussed the importance of your leadership’s team ability to feel vulnerable in order to develop trust.
Topics: Discipline, Strategic Discipline, Patrick Lencioni, Organizational Health, The Advantage
Hope is Not a Business Strategy – A Sprinkle of Good News!
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, May 14, 2012
Topics: Four Decisions, The Inside Advantage, strategy, revenue growth
It’s the oddest thing. I feel fine, even great most of the time, yet the doctors, the numbers my blood work provide, the mask I have to wear when I go outside or when I’m around people, all say I’m sick!
Topics: collective intelligence, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, employee performance, meeting rhythms, productivity, The Advantage
Weekly Meeting Rhythms – Pass On The Company’s Leadership DNA
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, May 7, 2012
Topics: Leadership Training, meeting rhythms, Leadership DNA, best practices of growth companies






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