Gerry Czarnecki Developing Peak Performance Through Leadership Excellence

How is your “batting average” on hiring? Well, I am a very highly qualified interviewer, but, I have made many bad hires. Yes, I preach good interviewing techniques, and yet I have managed to be wrong almost 30% of the time. In baseball, a 700 batting average would be outstanding (in fact probably impossible), but, [...]

Far too many people end up in a job for which they are either not technically qualified for, or which they simply do not have the right behaviors, temperament or attitude. If you have ever been in a job that was wrong for you, then you precisely know the issue. I have had that situation, [...]

How many times have you heard that? Many people use that expression to explain away their inability to explain failure. Others use it to excuse their own failure to lead, by in essence “blaming” the other party for a failure to communicate (meaning listen) rather than to accept responsibility. In other cases it really is [...]

I am so into passion, and you should be too. If you have any question about the power of passion – emotion – in the work place, just think about the last time you saw a total, shocking upset in sports.  There simply are too many cases where the better team, did not win. Where [...]

Most of us plan. Some better than others, but most of us plan. I am a planning obsessive. Yes, it may actually be too much; but I have this unbelievable role model in my life, so I could not be sloppy on planning even if I wanted to be. That role model is my wife. [...]