by Bill Bliss | May 19, 2011 | Bill's Blog, Coaching, Competency Assessments, Executive Coaching, Leadership
According to a recent McKinsey & Company survey of 1,440 executives, nearly 60% of respondents said that building organizational capabilities such as talent management is a top-three priority for their companies. Yet only a third of companies actually focus their...
by Bill Bliss | Apr 28, 2011 | Bill's Blog, Employee Hiring & Retention, Leadership
This post comes from a breakout session I recently delivered at a business leaders conference. In a recent survey of about 600 business owners and leaders conducted by our organization, well over 50% have not developed or defined leadership competencies that are...
by Bill Bliss | Apr 7, 2011 | Employee Hiring & Retention, Leadership, Teams
Why have some organizations been able to grow and prosper for decades or even centuries? Of course there are many reasons for this, but one of the most compelling is the intentional and ongoing commitment of leadership development – the ongoing commitment to build and...
by Bill Bliss | Mar 17, 2011 | Bill's Blog, Executive Coaching
I recently finished reading a book entitled “De-Railed” by Tim Irwin. In this book, he profiles 6 CEOs who once had a thriving reputation and had been enjoying success, yet came to a point where they de-railed – they were fired from their CEO role. Some of those...
by Bill Bliss | Jun 25, 2008 | Compensation
Given the tight labor market of today, many companies struggle with the issue of how much to pay employees. You certainly want to pay someone based on the value they provide the company, but how do you decide exactly what that amount should be? You would probably...
