by Wendy Mack Published: September 24,2010
Imagine a team so energized by a goal that they willingly work outside their job descriptions, put in long days and weekends, openly share ideas and constructive criticism, and achieve incredible results with limited time and few resources. This isn’t just a daydream. It actually happened right here in Colorado Springs — at the Pioneers [...] [...]
by Contributing Writer Published: September 24,2010
Tags: Small Business
By Greg Lopez Small Business Administration Colorado Director Cash flow is the lifeblood of all small businesses. Cash flow allows a business to make payroll, pay suppliers, and keep its doors open. We have been told that there is a credit crunch and that small business lenders are no longer extending lines of credit to [...] [...]
by Kent Wilson Published: September 17,2010
Corporate value statements — it seems as though every company has them these days, but far fewer know how to make their values operational or applicable to everyday situations. Values are the principles and boundaries that define corporate and personal behavior. Our values determine how we make decisions and how we relate to one another. [...] [...]
by Edward Marshall Published: September 10,2010
We hear it everywhere. People do not seem to trust large institutions, their leaders, or often others at work. The distrust gap is very significant, and its costs are significant. If there is distrust, we can lose customers. Or if our executive team members don’t trust each other, they may be seriously misaligned on strategy. [...] [...]
by Wendy Mack Published: September 3,2010
As a leader, you know that change is critical to your organization’s success. But resistance, confusion and inertia may be slowing your change efforts. To counteract inertia, leaders need to instill a sense of urgency. According to Harvard professor and change expert John Kotter, urgency is a sense of pressing importance. Kotter writes, “A real [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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