We had a great TEC speaker for my TEC 20 group spouses meeting in December. Boaz Rauchwerger is an author, trainer, coach and inspiration! He is without a doubt, the most positive person I have ever met. We learned a lot from Boaz, and I encourage you to check out some of his video blogs…
DetailsI just finished the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs. It’s an excellent book about a very complicated man. All through the book I kept asking myself, “Would I hire a Steve Jobs to run my company?” It’s a difficult question on several different levels. So in some coherent fashion, I’ll take a stab at…
DetailsMy dear wife (who by the way is also my Editor-in-Chief) and I were discussing stressed and distressed businesses. She works as a banker by day with problem business loans, so she gets to see lots of business stress as do I. She asked me, “So John, what percent of stressed businesses are suffering mainly…
DetailsI recently re-connected with my favorite TEC Speaker of all time, Ed Ryan, of MPR Inc. in Chicago. www.buildwiththebest.com. I hadn’t talked to Ed in a long time so I hiked on down to Park Ridge IL to see him. Ed was my first TEC speaker in 1991. When he opened his TEC talk, he…
DetailsI love the Internet! One of the best things for me is the ability to find long-lost friends. We all have certain teachers who made a difference in our lives. For me it was my 9th Grade Social Studies and Home Room Teacher, Rod Buchen. Rod was a young teacher when I was a High…
DetailsMost business folks I know are frustrated Marketing experts. Or maybe not frustrated, but marketing experts nonetheless. Me, I am a frustrated HR expert! I continue to be really interested in this new, four-generation workplace that has evolved and the role that technology is playing in new ways to work. And since I want to…
DetailsFirst I want to say “Thank you” to Simon Sinek who presented at the All-TEC Inspirational Leadership Conference earlier in April. It was fantastic and inspired me to share some of his thoughts with you and what they have meant to me as well. If you are interested, I’d first recommend that you watch a…
DetailsIn my role as a TEC Chair, I was meeting with the CEO TEC member and his controller, “Jim” (name changed to protect me!). They were each extremely frustrated with the other. Jim’s a great controller and the CEO’s an excellent entrepreneur. The CEO was complaining that Jim wasn’t giving him what he wanted, and…
DetailsI have been doing some TEC/Vistage talks recently called, “There’s NO Training after Toilet Training!” taken from my August Blog. The goal of these talks is to convince business people there is no use in trying to coach “C” players into “B” or “A” players, because it’s just not going to happen. Or….it happens so…
DetailsNow that the Green Bay Packers are World Champions again, and NFL Football is officially done (probably for a long time!), it’s time to get back to the important business of blogging. For February, I want to tell a story called “Slow down for Yellow Lights.” I was introduced to the concept about 15-years ago…
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