Personality Matters in Business

Most people have a “nodding” acquaintance with personality traits and profiling. That means when they are asked about profiles they “nod” and affirm they have taken profiles in the past, found them interesting or not and that pretty much is the extent of the subject. It is rare to run into people who have become aware of their own traits to the extent they gave them much tho...
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War on Words, (No more GIRL)

I woke up this morning to yet another day of people talking about whether or not the word Girl ought to be banned.  It got my attention because I must admit I throw a baseball like a girl, I run like a girl. I dance like a girl and play golf like a girl.   Oh Wait, I am a Girl.  I must be a little “off” because I like being a girl.  I liked being a girl when I was an actual gir...
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Four Hooks That Hang Juries

The medical malpractice lawsuit in Oakland, CA. centered on a wife (plaintiff) who was suing a mental health facility for allowing her husband to come home for the holidays after being committed after a suicide attempt.  The wife had visited the hospital late on a weekend night, when the primary care people were not there.  She had insisted that her husband be allowed to go...
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Who Is Your Gatekeeper?

Who is your Gatekeeper???? CEO’s and Senior Management are not having the fun they thought they would upon attainment of these decisive and influential positions. The trouble may not be the competition, the market, the economy or even ever-growing regulatory requirements.  It may be coming from within. There is a growing threat to the health of American companies. ...
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Do the Work Upfront for Exceptional Performance

Hiring the right people is more work up front, but the performance of the right people makes the effort worthwhile.Companies have been intimidated by the misstatement of law and human resource policies resulting in dangerous disregard for who comes into the company. Diligence is disguised as drug testing and credit checks when it is absolutely true that a mismatch of capab...
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EagleVision’s Best Practice

Identify the Success Gap: Where we want to go – where we are = what we need to do to fill the gap.   Benchmark the Best: Identify the criteria by which to measure our best, identify who they are, define the characteristicsthey share. Identify counter-productive characteristics to screen out inappropriate new hires and faulty promotions. Create standards from the re...
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Signs Your Company Is In Trouble

Jennifer Munro’s TOP TEN LIST WARNING SIGNS THAT YOUR COMPANY IS IN TROUBLE!!! 10. You aren’t having the fun you thought you would have when you risked all to start a company! 9. You are spending more time on people problems (Hint: All problems are people problems. 8. You are spending much less time doing what you want to do,what you need to do and what you li...
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