by Julie Poland | Jan 4, 2018 | Process and Quality, Scaling Up, Strategic Leadership
You know what happens when everyone runs to the starboard side of the sailboat, right? The sailboat starts to lean that way, and if it leans too far it can tip right over. Based upon your talents, training, interests, and prior experience, you lean when you run your...
by Julie Poland | Mar 22, 2017 | Growth and Change, Strategic Leadership
It’s not common that businesses have only one goal, and it’s not common that any business has only one problem, or only one opportunity that it has not yet pursued. Once you realize that you have work to do to shore things up, or to scale things up, do you...
by Julie Poland | Mar 24, 2016 | Growth and Change, Life as a Leader
Have you heard the expression “who you are speaks to me so loudly that I can’t hear you telling me who you are”? The same goes for your company culture. It’s important that you communicate about values, expectations, etc., but the indicators of...
by Julie Poland | Feb 15, 2016 | Process and Quality, Uncategorized
Fair warning – this might sound like a rant. Perhaps it will read that way because it is. The bank/accounting software link isn’t working. Again. Shouldn’t it be working all day, every day? It’s tax season, and the scramble is on to get all...
by Julie Poland | Feb 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
The blog has been mostly dark for a couple of weeks while SummitHRD moves into its next version. And more is to come. Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be migrating from Blogger (which we’ve loved as a blogging platform) to WordPress, which...