High Performance: Page 9

Employee Experience & Recruiting

Field a Team of 'A' Players at Your Startup

Don't let chronic C players jeopardize your organization's chances at success.

Growing a Business

Want to Start Building Momentum for 2015? Start Your Resolutions Now.

Don't wait to start making positive changes in your personal and professional lives.

Productivity

Energy Management Is the Missing Link to Peak Performance

Managing your time is important, but make sure you're prioritizing high-value tasks.

Making a Change

Enlist the Power of Suggestion to Boost Your Startup's Performance

Setting employee expectations is critical enough that it can mean the difference between success and failure.

Thought Leaders

The Biggest Blown Opportunity in Your Business

Most likely, someone in your organization is disengaged, and all their potential is falling through the gap. But there's a simple solution.

Leadership

To Turn Potential Into Performance, You Need to Place Confidence in Others

Employees, clients and customers will be inspired to do better if you show them that you believe they can.

Innovation

Underdogs Can't Win Being Copycats

Don't just look at the current best in your industry and do what they do. Try to be the best you, but feel free to borrow from unlikely sources.

Productivity

Students Who Turn in Work Right at the Deadline Get Worse Grades, Study Finds

Procrastinators, take note: As seductive as it often sounds, working under pressure probably isn't the best strategy for achieving stellar results.

Leadership

Marathon Runners Make Better CEOs, Study Finds

New research finds a positive correlation between CEO fitness and firm value.

Employee Experience & Recruiting

What to Do When Your Employees Aren't Living Up to Expectations

When a staffer isn't meeting expectations, follow up with these concerted steps. In the process you might find ways to improve your leadership style.

Leadership

Keeping Score Matters, But Not How You Think

Tracking your progress is important to self-improvement, but beware letting others be the referee.

Leadership

No C Players in Leadership Positions, Please

Great CEOs will critically assess their managers to detect those not performing at the highest level.

Leadership

Underdogs, at the World Cup and in Business, Just Need One to Win

You never know when success will come, so always put in more energy, effort and motivation.

Resumes & Interviewing

When Hiring, Take a Cue From the NBA and Look for Performance and Character

Billion-dollar sports franchises conduct in-depth background checks and administer personality profiles for possible draft picks. Here are eight things they look for.

Innovation

4 Reasons Why Leaders Need More Wave Makers

These innovators jump in and ask, "What can I do?" and initiate changes that can bring huge payoffs to an entrepreneurial operation.