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When I was 30, I was extended an offer to serve as an Account Director at a small, start-up company.  The CEO and Founder created a...

For many years in my previous career with GE, I worked in the Quality or Six Sigma function.  I earned my Master Black Belt and Quality...

Since I’ve joined the CSR team, I’ve assisted in creating budgets for lawyers, engineers, and even doctors, but the budget I’m proudest...

Team members at CSR are big fans of author Patrick Lencioni.  Last year I read about his Team Effectiveness Exercise at “The Hub.” ...

MBOs? Should I pull out my scrunchies and legwarmers, too? Okay, MBOs (Management By Objectives) may be a little old school, but they are...

Once a CSR client moves past the blood, sweat & tears of their strategic planning session, they are met with a choice:  implement the...

You’ve realized you need to hire someone else. Now what? Even if you needed a new hire “like yesterday,” it’s important to take a step...

Over time, the critical importance of the human resource component in any business has become more and more clear to us at CSR.  We...

There is a movie that I saw a few years ago by the name of Master and Commander (it stars Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany).  I was always...

I recently (and I’ll admit, with great reluctance initially) attended an Alan Weiss Million Dollar Consulting Convention. Why? One of my...