Leadership
The Women of Words Cause
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I know, the pervs were probably expecting some pictures of scantily clad women. For that, you should go here. For the rest of you, Dean and I had four incredibly amazing women on the Dean and Jared Words Cause [...]
Successful Micromanagement in Information Technology Part 3: Remove Ineffective Players
Successful Micromanagement Series Continued
Since the last post in the Successful Micromanagement Series, I’ve been struggling with how to convey the third part of successful micromanagement without sounding like a Al “Chainsaw” Dunlap. After all, how can you tell someone that potentially firing/laying-off people is an essential part of any success without sounding like a callus [...]
Womentrepreneurs: Health Care Leaders
Womentrepreneurs: Women entrepreneurs and leaders. Extraordinary women leading business, industry, and communities.
Health care is always an enjoyable subject to talk about. Just thinking about health insurance is likely to put a smile on anyone’s face, isn’t it? Not likely, but we are going to meet some women entrepreneurs who are changing this frustrating industry.
This Saturday, [...]
Small Business: Employee Morale During Economic Slowdown
Keeping employees motivated for any small business is key to long-term success. It is even more imperative to keep employees motivated during an economic downturn. After all, low employee morale during an economic downturn could lead to disaster for your small business. When times are tough, companies that keep their employees engaged are more [...]
Failures in Leadership: Lessons Learned
I recently left my post as a COO of a very small technology services company. This company was a small, disorganized, underfunded US wing of a European BV. Initially, I was quite excited about the idea of being large and in charge of a US division of a small, but global company. I would [...]
First Show Highlights: IT Leadership
IT managers and executives will greatly benefit from the lessons we’ve learned over the years. We cover outsourcing your development, the culture of software engineers and how to manage them effectively, and we even cover micromanagement. Sometimes, micromanagement isn’t bad for a business. Learn how Jared used micromanagement to get a failing IT project back on track to developing an ecommerce solution that doubled the conversion rate of the website.
Leadership Style: The Rebel Rouser (Ron Paul)
Leadership styles come in many forms. The Rebel Rouser is uniquely positioned as a leader of those who are typically disenfranchised, and those who enjoy bucking the system.
The fundamental success of Rebel Rouser, be it politics or business, leadership is that they are playing off of the discontent of a limited number participants in [...]
Definition of Leadership: Dean’s Version 2.0
Leadership is a loaded term that tends to mean something different depending on the person, the culture and the time you ask. Leadership also has levels or layers that fit into the context of the time and situation. If you asked me to define leadership 2o years ago, you would have gotten an entirely different [...]
WTF! No way is it alright for one dude to wizz between another two dudes! That's in the Man Law ...
What I have observed is that gas stations seem to watch one another to see how high they can price ...
Gas/service stations are independently franchised and prices are not set by the corporations that own them, but by the franchisee. ...
Chevron is setting a bar for other stations to charge more. Chevron is choosing to do this. I understand ...
Chevron price gouging? No way :-P
The crack down should be on our education system, not Chevron. 
Yeah, I agree with the other post. This so-called university obviously is not a institution of Higher Education.
Is gouging ...
Mindblowing, but sadly very common, and in more contexts than just restaurants. A lot of it, IMO, is simple ...
