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No Win Goals

I once took over the management responsibility for a $20M manufacturing facility near Tubington, Germany that had failed to meet its...

*The One-Page Strategic Plan

Not too many semesters ago, I taught a graduate course on Strategic Planning in the MBA program at Western Carolina University. I...

Leadership - More Art Than Science

For several semesters, I taught Leadership in the MBA program at WCU. There must be over one hundred books available on leadership. I...

A Motivational Theory for employee behavior? - I don't think so.

I was preparing to teach a chapter on work-place motivation to my Management class last week when it came to me. Can anyone really...

Common Sense Performance Appraisals

As the leader of several business units in my career, I wasted tens of thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of time on sourcing and...

Common Sense Terminations

I'm not proud of it, but I have terminated over 100 employees during my career - including a plant closing. I've had the best of formal...

Common Sense Hiring

Few things are as disruptive to a business as making hiring mistakes. The anxiety of performing a termination, the challenge of making...

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