Have you ever noticed how much time and energy can be burned without actually accomplishing anything during the course of a day? Here’s my list of the top things that keep me from being truly productive. I suspect it will sound quite familiar to many of us, so I don’t claim any unique insight. I [...]
Tag Archives: Performance
Irreplaceable or Invaluable?
I was chatting with one of our key employees today. She indicated she was struggling with what she perceived to be a conflict of statements I have made to our company. On one hand, I tell our folks we want to hire the best, most capable people we can, and on the other hand I [...]
What Is Your Trust Formula?
I spent a number of years at Gemini Management Consulting. As you may know, selling consulting services is a significant challenge. In consulting the only thing you have to sell is your collective brainpower – no product to test, nothing tangible you can try out before you buy. This is a much more intangible sale than software [...]
The Secret to Success? Pattern Matching
For years I have worked with a wonderful assemblage of talent from a wide variety of fields, both inside and outside government. This includes venture capitalists, intelligence analysts, business analysts, and senior executives. The really good ones are able to ingest a lot of information quickly and iterate through it quickly to make decisions, more [...]
What You Can Learn From The Flying Karamozov’s
Ken Rosen, our VP of Marketing, introduced Chiliad to Randy Nelson, a former colleague of Ken from his days at Next. Randy may be one of the world’s leading experts on training. He also has a very intriguing personal history that I will let you discover for yourself. The title of this blog gives you a [...]
Will That Dog Hunt?
Have you had the experience of going to an event where start-up companies are delivering their elevator pitch? Me too. After listening, more often than not, I come away confused without any real idea of what many of these companies actually do — much less whether what they claim will actually work. The problem becomes much more critical when one [...]
