Well-being is important in our quality of life. In “A Missing Link Between Work and Well-Being”, Daniel Goleman shows presents a link to work’s quantity of life.
Resonant Leadership by the book
Previously, Boyatzis and McKee collaborated on the book Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence. In Resonant Leadership again team to …
Technical ability does little to mitigate risk
Organizations don’t simply run from a strategic plan prescription. Projected cash flows don’t deliver themselves. Business units don’t run in a …
Hiring the right person is more cultural than technical
When building a team the potential personality clashes and social miscues realize hiring the right person is more cultural over technical.
Hiring the right person is more emotional than rational
You have to assume every person you interview has the technical skill to do the job. Once past the traditional human …
Venture Capital and the descent into irrelevance
The bigger the risk, the bigger the reward. Elemental finance: you assume the amount of risk suitable for an expected payoff. …
The NFL draft and your company recruiting strategy (round 2)
The NFL draft reveals all things wrong with talent acquisition and recruiting. Looking at how an NFL team drafts provides terrific …
The NFL draft and your company recruiting strategy
There is little doubt each National Football League (NFL) team spends an extraordinary amount of resources preparing to draft their number …
Human capital assessments — the symptom or the disease
The drive to evaluate operations and to contain costs is mistakenly applied as an operational issue across the board. Too often a …
Notes from Boston: the state of US venture capital
This was originally posted in the nowEurope, where I post as a contributor. nowEurope reported on technology innovation in Central Europe Centrope …
Innovation Boston and Budapest, or Dirty Water and the Blue Danube
13 years offers a great opportunity to revisit most relationships. At first blush, Boston and Budapest seem to have little to …
The cost of human capital is emotional intelligence
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a capacity to recognize how our own emotions motivate ourselves and the awareness of our emotions on …
Innovation, the technical risk to IQ
I see and read so much about offers to teach or facilitate innovation, but what is innovation? Innovation has less to …
Why Startups Should ALWAYS Compromise When Hiring? — Never!
Reading a blog on the venture capital website Start Up Hire called: Should Startups Compromise When Hiring? I found a reference …
Emotion versus intelligence — the tortoise and the hare
In my Culture war post, I advocate Emotional Intelligence as a more important quality job interview criteria than a corporate or …
Culture war
Looks to me culture fit has turned into force fit. Company culture is realized in the way things get done at …