Mike Mears
Mike Mears is an international leadership consultant with the goal of making leadership easier for you. He ran CIA's Leadership Academy and graduated from West Point and Harvard Business School.
Changing Minds — Brain-simple tips to make leadership (and HR) easier!
Fix Problems, Not Blame When something is going wrong with a project or a product, it is tempting to find out who is at fault and blame them. There is…
Looking for Trends Looking for trends is part of data analysis. If you look at your data and see something seriously harming your bottom line or an opportunity that needs…
In order to make informed decisions and assess the impact of your actions, you must collect meaningful data. You collect benchmarking information in the beginning, and then you collect the…
Fact Based Decision Making – Focus on the Vital Few If you collect data on many variables over any length of time, you may find yourself in the position of drowning…
In business and organizational management, facts require data to back them up—otherwise they are just opinions. Data is a tricky entity. To have decision-supporting data, you must be selective in…
Having and showing direction is like providing a roadmap to a destination. As a leader and manager, your task is to establish the desired goal (the destination) and the objectives…
This week on the Leadership Raccoon Podcast we examine the importance of having and showing direction in the workplace. Share us:
Knowing how to motivate others is an important skill for a leader. Today on the podcast we delve into the topic of delegating responsibilities as a way to achieve this…
Knowledge is a invaluable resource, and sharing it with others can lead to new insights when it comes to problem solving. Share us:
Problems are unavoidable in our daily lives and in our places of employment. but how do we go about identifying and overcoming these problems? Share us:
There are important decisions to be made when you are in a leadership position. In this week’s episode of the Leadership Raccoon Podcast, we examine the crucial role of data…
In this episode of the Leadership Raccoon Podcast, we discuss what is needed for a leader to capture the best aspects of human nature, while learning to compensate for some…
