Category: Performance

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You Are Your Message: How to Speak / Present Well in Public

Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “the medium is the message” and advanced a number of prophetic ideas – all from the vantage of the 1960’s. McLuhan’s thoughts apply to you – including predicting the over extension of technology, and the intensification of the world community to its present expression as a “global village.”

McLuhan’s quip regarding message and medium was the thought of my morning at WordCamp San Francisco – an event for blogging geeks that is akin to baseball fans attending spring training – and experienced how presenters such as Scott Berkun, Vanessa Fox, Matt Mullenweg, et al.… Read the rest

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4 Steps to Hiring Brilliantly: Step Four – The Hiring Process Never Stops

Almost every exec and manager hires people – even in the flat organizations common today. Yet few do it well, and many put it down low on their list of favorite things to do. This post is the last of series of four on how you can – with some simple, common sense practices – hire well, get a great return from your hiring activities, and frankly enjoy a reputation for hiring brilliantly.… Read the rest

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[Your Job] How Legal and/or Relevant Are Psychological Assessment Tests?

Reader Robert B. from Colorado asks this week:

“Between reading your blogs and filling out applications, I have come stumbled upon some questions. How legal and/or relevant are psychological assessment tests? Are those assessments relevant if the individual has PTSD? I think it’s possible that these test could be discriminating against people who went through traumatic events in their childhood. I have come across very few court cases that have tried to figure out the issue. … Read the rest

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What’s Your Teachable Moment?

As an executive and team coach – or a CEO –  you are can always use teachable moments. They are the  times when you can draw a straight line between some moment of reality that’s staring you in the face in the here-and-now and a concept or principle you’ve been trying to teach.

Teachable moments come at any time, though they seldom have a predictable schedule.… Read the rest

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[Life Back West – March 2010] Size Matters – Even at the Bus Stop

There is size that counts, and size that doesn’t: this is a post about size that counts.

And where size counts most (apart perhaps from your bank account and the quality of life/family /health measures) is the number of people in a team, group, or organization.

This tale about size starts with a story and ends with a bus stop: bear with it – it’s a story that applies to you too.… Read the rest