On our Hire and Retain Top Talent Blog, we recently posted a video of our Research Project titled The Top Ten Mistakes in Hiring. You can download a copy of the Executive Summary of the Top Ten Hiring Mistakes Research Project by clicking here. The blog post with the video of the Top Ten Mistakes [...]
Tag Archive for ‘hiring top talent’ 
Finding good sales people
Why is it so hard to hire great salespeople? Because sales is a four letter word and nobody is buying right now. So sales must change. Incentives must change. Expectations must change.
Is the Issue of Delayed Gratification Important in Success vs. Failure?
Vistage Chair Mark Taylor, put forth the interesting idea that perhaps success or failure is determined by delayed gratification. Here are a few of the comments Mark made in his blog post: In this six minute TED talk, Joachim de Posada, author of Don’t Eat The Marshmallow Yet!: The Secret to Sweet Success in [...]
Do Sales Managers Realize They Are Making These Mistakes?
Why does Benjamin Franklin’s quote about the definition of insanity seem so appropriate for many managers – especially sales managers? In an interesting article on the Sales Archaeologist Blog, Frank Belzer laid out his Top Ten Mistakes that he sees Sales Managers making over and over again. I’ve listed a few items from the [...]
Candidates Just Can't Get Any Respect
I came across this great post on the About.com Human Resources site. The primary point that Susan Heathfield makes is that candidate’s deserve a response, they deserve the right to know where they stand in your hiring process. She claims and I agree 100% that the candidate you reject deserves the same courtesy of notification [...]
Navigating around the Vistage Leadership Community Portal
In this blog post, I’ll describe how to navigate around to some of the key areas on our Vistage Leadership Community Portal Site. We’ve already discussed in another blog posting the tabbed content of Best Practices. You can read about the tabbed structure of this site by CLICKING HERE. At the top along the header [...]
Welcome to the Vistage Leadership Community Blog for Best Practices
Welcome to the Vistage Leadership Community Portal Welcome to our first blog post for the Vistage Leadership Community Blog on how to LEVERAGE the success of your people to build an exceptional organization. We’ll explore subjects including leadership, management, hiring and retaining top talent, sales management, culture and employee satisfaction/engagement. In addition, we’ll also take [...]
