Hiring

Posts with the ‘Hiring’ tag

My Un-Resume: Hiring Mistakes

I have been thinking about writing an un-resume.  This would be the list of all the things I have done wrong.  It is a long and sometimes scary list.  I always tell people a resume should never be more than two pages long.  Unfortunately my un-resume would break that rule!

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Coachability: A Window To Character

I spend a lot of time in the bleachers at my kids sporting events.  I love it.  I am a gym rat who loves to watch both practice and games.  It is one of my favorite things from my childhood that I did with my dad, The Master of The Sword at West Point. Sometimes […]

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To Hire A Low Maintenance Team: Hire Character

I am one of those guys who does not always get to control the TV remote in my house.  Because of this dynamic, my desire to watch Deadliest Catch or SportsCenter is put on hold so my wife can watch one of her cooking shows. One thing I often hear on these shows is to […]

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To Lead A Low Maintenance Team You Must: Surrender Self

All leaders would love to have a low maintenance team (LMT).  A LMT allows a leader to focus on the big things and avoid the day to day hassles that could and should be handled at lower levels.  When a leader does that, the leader and the team are more engaged and burnout and turnover […]

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Leaders: Hire People Who Walk With A Limp

Adversity builds character.  I find that the people I admire have not always had things easy.  Somewhere, at sometime in their past, these people overcame circumstances in their lives that changed them.  They walk with a limp. Through my 15 years of interviewing, hiring and training people I discovered that finding people who walk with […]

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Leaders All Want To Lead Low Maintenance Teams

Leaders when I say the words Low Maintenance Team a lot of you smile and think about a favorite team from your past. Some of you are wishing you had a Low Maintenance Team right now. I’ve had both low maintenance teams and high maintenance teams. And I know, WE ALL WANT TO LEAD LOW […]

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