by Raymond Keating Published: August 27,2010
Tags: Keating, Small Business Enterprise
Baseball is America’s national pastime. There’s nothing like catching a game at the ballpark. But when it comes to sports on television, the U.S. is all about football. And the NFL season kicks off Sept. 9 on NBC, with a rematch of last season’s NFC Championship game between the Minnesota Vikings and the eventual Super Bowl [...] [...]
by Contributing Writer Published: August 27,2010
Across our city, our region and our country, leaders are in crisis. They — we — struggle with practical fiscal and policy issues while wrestling with deep, values-based questions: Who and what do I represent? What do we need to do and how do we need to behave as an organization? How do we survive [...] [...]
by Edward Marshall Published: August 20,2010
Jason sat there with the 360 feedback front of him, a bit in shock. There were multiple instruments, and multiple interpretations of the data. Some of it was great news, and some of it was news he would rather not hear. Was it true? Was it accurate? What to make of it all? At the [...] [...]
by Contributing Writer Published: August 13,2010
As a leader, you know that you should be giving feedback. Yet, because feedback can be difficult to give and receive, chances are high that you delay and avoid feedback conversations. While you know that feedback is a vital ingredient for success at work, it is also complex and fraught with contradictions, such as: Your employees [...] [...]
by Contributing Writer Published: August 6,2010
Colorado Springs is used to being at the top of the class. We get ranked No. 1 or in the top 10 in dozens of important lists about community success. However, the newest report released by the Brookings Institute on its study on exports in the Intermountain region does not give our area our usual high [...] [...]
by Contributing Writer Published: August 6,2010
Tags: Keating, Small Business Enterprise
Well, I’ve unlocked the secret of President Obama’s agenda for the economy. It certainly was not easy. But it finally came to me as the President signed the financial regulatory bill in July. Apparently, the President of the United States, his top advisers, along with the current leadership in Congress, believe that best way to revive [...] [...]
by Contributing Writer Published: July 30,2010
If you are a business, division, or team leader who does not personally own the business or organization in which you have a leadership role, congratulations. You are in the majority — executives hired to manage privately-held or publicly-traded companies, government or nonprofit organizations or divisions, on behalf of the owner(s) or community. You have [...] [...]
by Contributing Writer Published: July 30,2010
Tags: Keating, Small Business Enterprise
When it comes to the New York Yankees, you either love ‘em or hate ‘em. That’s been the case for almost 90 years now, since the Yanks became a powerhouse in the 1920s. But over the past 37 years, the same could be said for the team’s owner, George Steinbrenner. In fact, over those decades, even Yankee [...] [...]
by Contributing Writer Published: July 24,2010
Tags: Keating, Small Business Enterprise
President Obama is no fan of fossil fuels. Instead, he likes wind and solar. Unfortunately, energy via winds and the sun is unreliable and extremely costly. Part of the big costs come from government handouts. In his radio and online address on July 3, the president dressed up taxpayer subsidies as plusses for the economy. Mr. Obama said, [...] [...]
by Contributing Writer Published: July 24,2010
Tags: Leadership, Small Business Enterprise, small business. Wendy Mack
Employee motivation is a perennial hot topic for leaders at all levels. What if you had a way to identify what motivates each person on your team? What if your conversations with each employee could be tailored to emphasize what matters most to him or her? What if you could match each person’s tasks and [...] [...]
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