Employees Count - Culture and Accountability
1 Comment Published by Bob Prosen October 15th, 2006 in Culture of Accountability.How treating employees makes a difference at the end of the day. Sophia Pearson’s story about Wal-Mart, highlights one of the larger issues in how a company can best serve its employees, which has an immense amount of impact on how customers are ultimately served by the company. Companies that reward accountability and results, and cultivate open, honest communication, can unite to discuss problems, seek the best solutions, assist team members who are struggling, and work together to consistently achieve objectives. This type of culture emphasizes that winning means the entire company is successful. Such companies understand that everyone is dependent upon one another and that the whole business is seamlessly intertwined.
Debbie Weil’s “The Corporate Blogging Book”
3 Comments Published by Bob Prosen October 6th, 2006 in Leadership and Business Management.So your company is going great, and someone there says you have to start a corporate blog! Chilling words or at least they were to me. But a friend of mine suggested Debbie Weil’s The Corporate Blogging Book and I’ve gifted it to two fellow CEOs already.
The book is expansive, clear and direct in tackling what Debbie terms “absolutely everything you need to know to get it right.”
I particulary like the key questions she poses for assessing your blog readiness in Chapter 9 “Making the Case For Blogging to the Boss.”
Debbie’s “Top Ten Tips To Write An Effective Business Blog” are worth the price of the whole book. I’m working on Tip #3 - Invite a Conversation - so here’s my invitation to you (in this conversation) to start blogging using Debbie’s book! And I’d love to hear how your own company blogging is going!
The other Tip I like is #5 - “Always, always link” so here’s a link to Debbie’s BlogwriteforCEO’s site and I encourage you to start your own conversations and your company blogs!
Why Accountability Matters
2 Comments Published by Bob Prosen September 27th, 2006 in Why Accountability?.Yesterday, Andrew Fastow received six years for his part in the Enron debaucle.
In this day and age, integrity and accountability are two of the most important things you can do to keep your company on a journey toward excellence. There are no gray areas, it’s black and white and if you put the right people and culture in place, it can be very rewarding long term for your bottom line.
Unfortunately, some business leaders look for the quickest road to success, regardless of the consequences. The business pages of newspapers and magazines are filled with news about seemingly successful companies and executives who basked in the glory of the cover stories and feature articles, only to come crashing back to earth as their dishonest, corrupt, and greedy business practices came to light.
Companies are created for one purpose: to achieve a mission. To do this requires consistent delivery of results against goals. Results are best achieved when organizations have strong leaders who know how to balance vision and results, create an accountability-based culture, hire the right people, operate with unquestionable integrity, and have the courage to lead.
Success without accountability and integrity is not an option.
Hear Bob’s Fireside Chat with Lisa Hanenberg, Management Craft
29 Comments Published by Bob Prosen September 26th, 2006 in Interview with Lisa Hanenberg.Hi folks,
I’m proud to post this link to an interview I did with Lisa Hanenberg, blog editor for Management Craft. Lisa is a wonderful interviewer and I really enjoyed talking about ways to “kiss theory goodbye” in this Fireside Chat.
Here’s the link to the interview . Keep reading and listening!
Bob
Fantastic Interview!
0 Comments Published by Bob Prosen September 22nd, 2006 in Leadership and Business Management.Recently I had the great honor of being tapped by Lisa Hanenberg of Management Craft - http://www.allbusiness.com, for one of her wonderful Fireside Chats. During the conversation we talked about management, accountability, how to truly “kiss theory goodbye.” Lisa’s wit, charm and depth of experience made the conversation all the better. Look for the chat on the 25th at her blog and I’ll post a link to it when it comes up on this blog too! And let me recommend Lisa’s book “Focus Like A Laser Beam: 10 Ways to Do What Matters Most”, as well.
Thanks for reading!
Bob
We won!
1 Comment Published by Bob Prosen September 3rd, 2006 in Leadership and Business Management.To everyone who read and voted for my article,
Thank you for your support. Because of you, and many others who enjoyed “Accountability is Not a Dirty Word”, we took top place at ChangeThis.com.
Many of you sent comments about the importance of accountability and offered your encouragement to make it to the next stage. Well we did!
Here’s what’s next.
I’ve been asked to submit a 1st draft by October 13th, so that the editing phase can begin. The goal will be to publish my manifesto in the December issue.
Keep in mind that because I’ve have been invited to write a manifesto does not guarantee that it will be published. The publisher only wants only the best content (in terms of quality and readability) to be posted on their site.
On to the next phase!
Happy holiday weekend.
Bob
