Why Leaders Need a Personal Brand
This month’s “Extreme CEO” column as published in SMART CEO Magazine: By Don Schmincke and Eric Miller What makes some leaders stand out above the rest? It’s not your skills and talents — it’s your personal brand. Leaders that people remember — and follow — represent themselves in an authentic light that reflects the vision of their […]
Does Your Business Growth Plan Need A Reality Check?
Managing partner Eric Miller and Don Shmincke, a well known author, renegade consultant and revolutionary speaker, are contributing authors for a featured column in Baltimore’s SmartCEO Magazine. Does your business growth plan need a reality check? As yet another year rolls in, it’s time to ask yourself if you were really ready to flip the […]
Mentoring Is Ancient. Your Company’s Program Doesn’t Have To Be.
Managing partner Eric Miller and Don Shmincke, a well known author, renegade consultant and revolutionary speaker, are contributing authors for a featured column in Baltimore’s SmartCEO Magazine. Beyond the Odyssey Mentoring is not a new concept. As far back as Paleolithic times, one would imagine cavemen had a system, albeit informal, for passing on their […]
Why Your Legacy Is About Living, Not Leaving [SmartCEO August 2013]
Managing partner Eric Miller and Don Shmincke, a well known author, renegade consultant and revolutionary speaker, are contributing authors for a featured column in Baltimore’s SmartCEO Magazine. The Legacy Paradox For some, “legacy” reminds us of death or an ending. For others, it rings of something handed down or left behind. But, as a CEO, […]
What Visionary Steve Jobs Taught Us About Achieving Our Dreams. [SmartCEO November 2013]
Managing partner Eric Miller and Don Shmincke, a well known author, renegade consultant and revolutionary speaker, are contributing authors for a featured column in Baltimore’s SmartCEO Magazine. Be Like Steve Jobs As children, we dream of all the different things we want to be when we grow up. Unfortunately for many of us, as we […]
The Family-Oriented Business
Family oriented businesses care about the whole person and invest in their staff like a parent would their child in order to see the team grow and thrive.
Find Your Company’s Ideal Business Culture
What are the steps in defining the ideal culture for your business? When it comes to organizational culture, Leaders often make the same complaints: “But that’s so amorphous, so intangible, so tough to get my hands around. I’d rather focus on other things.”
Corporate Culture Archetypes – New Article on SmartCEO
Managing partner Eric Miller and Don Shmincke, a well known author, renegade consultant and revolutionary speaker, are contributing authors for a featured column in Baltimore’s SmartCEO Magazine. Read this month’s article on corporate culture, “To Each His Own,” online by Clicking Here>>
The Legacy Paradox – New Article In SmartCEO Magazine
Managing partner Eric Miller and Don Shmincke, a well known author, renegade consultant and revolutionary speaker, are contributing authors for a featured column in Baltimore’s SmartCEO Magazine. Read this month’s article “The Legacy Paradox” online by Clicking Here>>
Lucky Hire or Smart Assessment?
What’s luck got to do with it? Short answer is, a lot more than we care to admit. The good news is there is such a thing as skill based luck that we can cultivate and thus improve our odds for success when hiring employees, choosing managers and thriving as a leader.
