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Mind Our Business! The Bottom Line of Leadership Economics

As business owners and CEOs kick-off a new year and ponder what the next decade will bring, let’s start with this question:  Ask yourself whether you understand leadership economics and leverage it as a growth strategy?   Understanding leadership economics is priceless.  Looking at your past wins and victories over your competition, what role did leadership […]

HR Matters for Cannabis Companies

I attended MJBiz Conference in December 2019, and I was pleasantly surprised that traditional HR practices are finding their way in the cannabis industry amid State licensing, growth, mergers and acquisitions, and unprecedented job growth. A host of experts shared their expert advice about starting and sustaining the business by using industry best practices, and […]

Five Tips to Maintain Team Cohesion During Social Distancing

For employers who can operate remotely, the challenge is how to maintain teamwork and camaraderie while complying with social distancing. Without much warning, in the last two weeks, companies have released workers to comply with state “stay-at-home” orders.  More likely than not, most employers do not have a business continuity plan in place. Here are […]

Dealing with COVID-19 and Managing Change

Not only has COVID-19 disrupt our lives, it has also played havoc in causing friction among teams and how work is accomplished.  How leaders manage their employees’ may provoke disengagement or inspire mindfulness and resilience.  Under normal conditions, according to Po Chi Wu, Ph.D., friction is unavoidable in the workplace but how we manage it […]

9 trends in Cannabis Human Capital Management

These favorable advancements haven’t come without a variety of challenges, including continued banking access stalls, compliance hurdles, and environmental tragedies. While most legal markets in the nation are struggling to keep up with the demand for qualified talent, select California enterprises laid off an average of 30% of their workforce due to numerous obstacles. Most notably, the vaping […]

Leadership Disengagement Still a Problem for Business Owners & CEOs in 2020

The cost of a disengaged leader is staggering. For the last 5-10 years, much emphasis has been focused on the impact that disengaged employees have on the bottom line. And while technically a leader is an employee, the cost of a disengaged leader can be ten times the cost of a single employee.   The reasons […]

From Entrepreneur to CEO – It’s Not Luck!

As I coach business owners who were once entrepreneurs who launch an idea that grew into a company that grew to the point that it needed people, systems and process, I am perplexed that little emphasis is placed on the need to develop the skills to be a high performing chief executive officer.  Not knowing […]

What Federal Contractors Need to Know About Coronavirus and Preparing for a Government Shutdown

Whether its television, radio, print, or social media, I know you are aware of how quickly the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is spreading throughout the USA and across the globe. The Center for Disease Control (“CDC”) is warning of an imminent outbreak in the United States, and now is the time to take measures to put in […]

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