ALL IN: How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams by Mike Michalowicz is an under-the-radar book that breaks down the winning model for being successful with “Employees First.”
Hint: The real HR Magic comes in making great 5-Star employee hires and not settling for “just maybe okay” for the role.
If you want to be a 5-Star Company delivering 5-Star Service, it will never happen with 3-Star Employees who were never the right fit for the role to begin with.
5-Star Employee Hires ramp up quickly to meet their key responsibilities and hit their success metrics. (Having 90-Day Probationary Periods is a gigantic waste of time and payroll dollars….when you go ALL IN on your hiring you hire 5-Star Fits with a 90%+ retention rate of greater than 18 months.)
Gallup’s “First, Break All the Rules” and “Now, Discover Your Strengths” follows the same logic, particularly the focus of having the right people in the right roles. If you are engaged in your work (by being able to do what you do best every day) you are positioned to be successful.
Forget ping-pong tables, free food and other perks; having engaged employees is the fundamental basis, the “master lever” to organizational success. Engaged employees leads to effective managers which leads to engaged customers. Everything good flows from this point.
The changes made by the Roundtable were just semantics and window dressing to make it look like anyone but the shareholders matter. In fact, shareholders come last in the process, if happy employees take care of customers and make them happy, strong profits follow and the shareholders will be happiest.
Re: first item in 7 Other Things about Trump accepting a $400m luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet. This comes at a time when Hamas was told to give Trump a gift (last remaining American Israeli hostage) in order to get a bigger gift back. Return the hostage without any of conditions insisted upon by Netanyahu. When the president is transactional it leaves open who pays the ultimate price and whether allies can trust him. What will be the true price of the luxury jet?
What is wrong with the current Air Force one? And how can anyone be sure there aren’t bugs or spyware stuff embedded in the aircraft itself? Even more, if it’s good enough for Trump, why is it being retired when (if) he finally leaves office? There is so much wrong with that “gift”.
The employee thing is just simple logic. It there are so many bad managers out there that the employees worth keeping won’t stay around long. How you treat others is how they will treat you. I know my loyalty was often to my direct manager and the C-suite.
Ironically, managers are employees as well and need to be engaged to do a good job. If they are miscast in their roles they will ultimately be bad managers.
Many are “Peter Principled” meaning they were promoted beyond their level of competency. You can be good at performing a job but terrible at managing that job, often because you were good at it as the requirements for successful managing are different from successfully doing. Moreover, managers like I described rarely accept that their staff can be as good as - or better than - them.
When I was working in a brick and mortar office, my office manager bought everything at Costco. Our birthday/anniversary cakes, our coffee, office supplies - everything. We thought she was part owner of Kirkland we had so much stuff in our building branded with that logo.
Of course it doesn’t have gold beds or toilets, but were I given the choice, I’d take the real deal.
I watched the video about Costco’s founder with interest. I’m glad he made the choices he made. It worked for him and Costco’s members. It’s going to be interesting to see how it as well as all the other large outlets(and small too)handle these upcoming tariff and resulting supply chain shortages. I’m thinking that we must have a subsidiary of Costco down here as the Kirkland brand is sold in our Price Mart warehouse store here in Panamá. I’ve been reading product origen labels on the products sold there especially where a lot of our paper products are from. They are all from Columbia, S.A. I figure the US made stuff we can probably live without. I know for sure I can still buy a dozen eggs for less than $2.50/doz.
IMHO It's good advice
“Treat employees the way they'd want to be treated,….”
What a concept!
ALL IN: How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams by Mike Michalowicz is an under-the-radar book that breaks down the winning model for being successful with “Employees First.”
Hint: The real HR Magic comes in making great 5-Star employee hires and not settling for “just maybe okay” for the role.
If you want to be a 5-Star Company delivering 5-Star Service, it will never happen with 3-Star Employees who were never the right fit for the role to begin with.
5-Star Employee Hires ramp up quickly to meet their key responsibilities and hit their success metrics. (Having 90-Day Probationary Periods is a gigantic waste of time and payroll dollars….when you go ALL IN on your hiring you hire 5-Star Fits with a 90%+ retention rate of greater than 18 months.)
Gallup’s “First, Break All the Rules” and “Now, Discover Your Strengths” follows the same logic, particularly the focus of having the right people in the right roles. If you are engaged in your work (by being able to do what you do best every day) you are positioned to be successful.
Forget ping-pong tables, free food and other perks; having engaged employees is the fundamental basis, the “master lever” to organizational success. Engaged employees leads to effective managers which leads to engaged customers. Everything good flows from this point.
The changes made by the Roundtable were just semantics and window dressing to make it look like anyone but the shareholders matter. In fact, shareholders come last in the process, if happy employees take care of customers and make them happy, strong profits follow and the shareholders will be happiest.
Y'all is the best way to say it, no matter where you are. And I've never typed 'k'...
K. 😉
Re: first item in 7 Other Things about Trump accepting a $400m luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet. This comes at a time when Hamas was told to give Trump a gift (last remaining American Israeli hostage) in order to get a bigger gift back. Return the hostage without any of conditions insisted upon by Netanyahu. When the president is transactional it leaves open who pays the ultimate price and whether allies can trust him. What will be the true price of the luxury jet?
What is wrong with the current Air Force one? And how can anyone be sure there aren’t bugs or spyware stuff embedded in the aircraft itself? Even more, if it’s good enough for Trump, why is it being retired when (if) he finally leaves office? There is so much wrong with that “gift”.
The employee thing is just simple logic. It there are so many bad managers out there that the employees worth keeping won’t stay around long. How you treat others is how they will treat you. I know my loyalty was often to my direct manager and the C-suite.
Ironically, managers are employees as well and need to be engaged to do a good job. If they are miscast in their roles they will ultimately be bad managers.
Many are “Peter Principled” meaning they were promoted beyond their level of competency. You can be good at performing a job but terrible at managing that job, often because you were good at it as the requirements for successful managing are different from successfully doing. Moreover, managers like I described rarely accept that their staff can be as good as - or better than - them.
When I was working in a brick and mortar office, my office manager bought everything at Costco. Our birthday/anniversary cakes, our coffee, office supplies - everything. We thought she was part owner of Kirkland we had so much stuff in our building branded with that logo.
As a reminder of what a “real” Air Force 1 is made of and why the price tag for it is so high you might be interested in this: https://youtu.be/86ywOSCWX7M?si=G8tCBq7iNb7vU8vs
Of course it doesn’t have gold beds or toilets, but were I given the choice, I’d take the real deal.
I watched the video about Costco’s founder with interest. I’m glad he made the choices he made. It worked for him and Costco’s members. It’s going to be interesting to see how it as well as all the other large outlets(and small too)handle these upcoming tariff and resulting supply chain shortages. I’m thinking that we must have a subsidiary of Costco down here as the Kirkland brand is sold in our Price Mart warehouse store here in Panamá. I’ve been reading product origen labels on the products sold there especially where a lot of our paper products are from. They are all from Columbia, S.A. I figure the US made stuff we can probably live without. I know for sure I can still buy a dozen eggs for less than $2.50/doz.