About the author: Mary Ellen Slayter
Mary Ellen Slayter leads SmartBrief’s general business and finance team. Before joining SmartBrief, she was at The Washington Post, where she authored the Career Tracks column and worked as an editor in the business news department for 8 years. She has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and a B.S. in agronomy from Louisiana State University. That means she can correct the pH of your lawn, as well as the typos on your resume.
A conversation with Zingerman’s Ari Weinzweig
Ari Weinzweig co-founded Zingerman’s Delicatessen in 1982 with a $20,000 bank loan. Today, the company is an Ann Arbor institution, and Weinzweig has branched out into a number of other businesses. We approached him recently to learn more about his leadership philosophy and his approach to innovation. Describe your leadership philosophy. There are many elements [...]
Spotlight on Association Leadership: U.S. Council for International Business’ Pete Robinson
Pete Robinson is president and CEO of the United States Council for International Business. Describe your leadership philosophy. Effective leadership consists of empowering and supporting those you are leading. Leaders need to be able to put top-notch teams in place who can, with some overall guidance, go out and get the job done. Earlier in [...]
VIP Corner: What a SEAL really learned from 72 hours of no sleep
SmartBrief editors scour the Web every day to find you the best news out there, and we all have our favorite sites. Big Think is one of mine, and I’m pleased to announce that we’ve partnered with Big Think to create this weekly video spotlight in SmartBrief on Leadership called VIP Corner. Every Tuesday, we’ll [...]
Q-and-A: How Jeff Lesher helps leaders embrace their success
Jeff Lesher is the founder and head coach at Conduce, a business for life coaching and executive consulting. Lesher has more than 20 years of experience helping individuals and businesses perform at a higher level, ensuring long-term success. SmartBrief interviewed Lesher about his work. An edited transcript of the conversation follows. Describe your leadership philosophy. [...]
How your mindset might be affecting your company’s innovation
Carol Dweck is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and author of “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.” Dweck has conducted extensive research on how a mindset can affect a person’s behavior and method of learning. I spoke with Dweck about her book and how different mindsets can affect a company’s ability to grow [...]
Limeade’s Henry Albrecht, on why he hates the word “no,” and how to hire the best people
Henry Albrecht is founder and CEO of Limeade, an online wellness company focused on building happy, healthy, high-performance workforces. Before founding Limeade, he was a vice president of product management at an enterprise software company and a product and marketing leader at Intuit. Describe your leadership philosophy Leaders are (enthusiastically) followed. I know — it’s [...]
Q&A with Mike Matalone: How to hire and retain valuable workers
Mike Matalone is president of Excelsior, a human capital consulting firm that helps companies and CEOs to recruit, develop, manage and retain effective employees. SmartBrief interviewed Matalone on his leadership philosophy and how to make sure you are hiring the right people. An edited version of his answers follows. Describe your leadership philosophy. Leadership is about [...]
#SHRM11: Glassdoor.com’s Robert Hohman on the power of transparency
This week, I attended the Society for Human Resource Management‘s annual conference, where I was able to meet with Robert Hohman, co-founder and CEO of Glassdoor.com. Not surprisingly, for the leader of a company that has its business model staked on sharing the best and worst sides of employers, the conversation frequently turns to transparency. [...]
