Five Business Lessons Learned From Baseball
Doug Fisher – Boardroom Metrics Five Business Lessons Learned From Baseball “A bad day at the ball park is better than a good day elsewhere" I love baseball! There are [...]
Who’s Accountable for your Accountability
Who's Accountable for your Accountability? Spend a day in company meetings and you will surely hear the word accountability many times. This should be a good thing, and sometimes it [...]
Seven Attributes of Great Business Leaders
Seven Attributes of Great Business Leaders by Doug Fisher – Boardroom Metrics Every business leader has their strengths and weaknesses. My greatest weaknesses are taking defeat very hard and overcomplicating [...]
Make Your Weekly Meetings Effective
Well, it’s Monday and that means it’s time to once again to assemble your team of business leaders to discuss the happenings of the prior seven days and prepare for [...]
Continual Improvement – 8 Questions to Ask your Employees
There are many critical moments in the life of a business leader. One often-missed opportunity is that one-on-one conversation with an employee regarding their happiness, performance, fit in the organization, or career track.
Hiring Millennials Without Using The Word Millennial
New trends in the business world are generally interesting and, at times, worthy of consideration and adoption. In most cases, there is always something to learn but I detest the [...]
Big Picture Thinking
Taking Time to Think - Big Picture Thinking I call it “window time”, the moments I invest in thinking solely about the big picture. It’s called the big picture for [...]
Vendor Relationship Management Tips
The Forgotten Relationship – Vendors The traditional business-to-vendor relationship is quickly becoming extinct. Gone are the days where the sales rep shows up periodically to say hi, you phone [...]
Julia Dumanian: CEO as Chief Communications Officer
Canadian Hearing Society CEO Julia Dumanian is an expert on the CEO role. Here she discusses the CEO's role as Chief Communications Officer for the organization. The role of the Chief [...]