Productive Leaders
How to Cultivate and Lead Top Junior Talent Every company needs to cultivate top junior talent to ensure a steady pipeline of future leaders. However, even some of the most iconic companies don’t think about succession planning until a crisis happens, the...
Why We'll See Even More Cryptocurrencies (Like Bitcoin) in 2018 While many people have dismissed Bitcoin and other cybercurrencies as "not real money" Goldman Sachs started a trading desk for cryptocurrencies. As blockchains are proving to be a way to secure online...
Are you giving your people the tools they need to be successful? What do your people need to do their jobs well? What can you improve that will either increase your total revenues or decrease your costs? Many leaders sabotage their employees’ success by not providing...
Why Assumptions Are Limiting Your Business Success Assumptions are mental shortcuts that are almost virtually unavoidable in everyday life. Everyone makes assumptions from time to time. Whether we are assuming that traffic will be good enough to get to work on time...
Now Is the Time for Corporate Leaders to Train Their Replacements Recent studies show that members of the baby boomer generation are retiring today at a staggering rate of 10,000 workers per day. This loss of experienced and well-trained workers is impacting on both...
What Makes Your Customers Walk Away and Not Return?One of the most crucial elements of any business — customer service — can literally make or break your bottom line.If your business is not as profitable as you’d like, take a look at how your customers are being...
How To Attract and Recruit Top TalentI have a program for corporations and associations called A.R.M.E.D. – How to Attract, Recruit, Mentor, Evolve, and Develop the Next Generation of Leaders.U.S. unemployment levels are at record lows, around 4%, and I expect that...
Where Does U.S. Manufacturing Really Stand? The past year has produced some seemingly very positive data for the American manufacturing sector. Most notable has been the dramatic rise of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a stock market index that tracks 30 major U.S....
Are You Avoiding Dangerous Assumptions? Our brains are formatted to detect patterns, and we often make assumptions to fulfill our desire to make sense of what find them everywhere. Still, assumptions can be dangerous. They can severely damage our relationships with...
April Peterson