How do we build a more compelling and robust recruiting process that all employees want to take ownership of?

In this edition of Colin’s Column, I want to walk you through how to self-publish a book.

How do you get a book published? Should you go the traditional route, should you self-publish? What’s the difference between non-fiction and fiction publishing?

Today’s Colin’s Column blog post is simple: How do you register to vote, why is it important to vote, and how can you do homework to better educate yourself for local elections?

The will to compete burned deep within Kobe well before he was an NBA and Team USA star, but even after he found the success he did not let up in his work ethic when it came to competing. 

When you have a culture that everyone believes in you can win battles even against some of the mightiest opponents you will face. That's why having superior organizational leadership is vitally important to sustainable success in any business. In this scenario, two titans clashed, but the one that put common sense before money prevailed and gave us all a reminder that people, not money, should really be what we all consider "the bottom line".

Today I want to spend a little time talking about my personal leadership influencers. These people may not be as highly visible, but they are just as impactful to me as any Yankees manager or player has ever been.

The 2017 season was one the New York Giants organization and their fans would like to forget about forever. But there is a dangerous component in trying to erase the past -- failing to learn from mistakes. It would have been easy for the Giants to pretend like the 2017 season didn't happen and go into the 2018 NFL Draft with glossy eyes and a vision of going for the "value" pick and a quarterback of the future. Drafting Saquon Barkley proves that the new regime and General Manager Dave Gettleman have not ignored the warning signs from seasons past.

If you are around sports enough, you will hear that "X's and O's don't matter". Yet, it is a "practice" that too many coaches and leaders of teams focus their sole efforts on. They get so caught up in how to beat the other team that they forget that the team they are supposed to be leading is looking towards them for guidance and knowledge.

As Coach Babers talked through his points and took questions from the crowd he addressed many things. Some of his more notable points were that “words trigger pictures” and that there are “no perfect people” and you have to “forgive yourself” and that “certain people get juiced by competition” - no pun intended, I’m sure.

There was one thing in particular that struck me most about Coach’s seminar and that was when he said, “your attitude is your altitude.”

I cannot stress enough how important following up is. In a professional or personal setting, following up is the single most important thing we can do and have absolute control over. In a world dominated by access to constant communication and information, it seems as though we find more ways than ever before to ignore people.

I recently read an article on LinkedIn that stated work-life balance in 2018 is dead.

Uh, I call bullshit.

How long would you say is appropriate for a candidate to go through a full-cycle internal recruiting process? I put an emphasis on appropriate because I’d also like to know how long you REALLY think the recruiting process for a candidate should be?

“So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains / And we never even know we have the key” - The Eagles, “Already Gone” (1974)

Six words, derived from one letter, drives Steve Just to success. He never lets a bad day get in the way of what he, and more importantly, his team, wants to accomplish