Posts tagged with ‘employees’

  • Part 1 — Why AI Matters for Leadership (And Why I Built AI Tools Hub)

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    By Ray Zinn, Silicon Valley’s Longest-Serving CEO Artificial intelligence is the next major shift in how people work. I’ve lived through several...

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  • Will AI Replace Managers? What 37 Years as a CEO Taught Me About Technology and Leadership

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    By Ray Zinn, Silicon Valley’s Longest-Serving CEO Every leader today is asking the same question: Will AI replace managers? That’s exactly why...

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  • How to Stay Valuable in the Age of AI

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    By Ray Zinn, Silicon Valley’s Longest-Serving CEO Artificial intelligence is changing the workplace faster than almost any technology we have experienced in...

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  • Employee Reviews That Matter

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    By Ray Zinn, Silicon Valley’s Longest-Serving CEO Most managers think employee reviews are about evaluating past performance. They’re not. An effective review...

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  • Self Calibration

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-SelfCalibration01.mp3The purpose of self calibration, like self awareness, is to improve your chances at success through recognizing, analyzing, and...

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  • Loud Quitting: Tantrum your way out of future job prospects.

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-QuietCuitting01.mp3The trend had been “quiet quitting” where an employee stops putting out any effort at all at work, but...

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  • Back To Work! (in-person)

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-BackToWork01.mp3Major companies say productivity and creativity are suffering from remote work and are now ordering workers back to the...

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  • Be more than just about profit, and profit follows.

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-MoreThanProfit01.mp3Fictional Wall Street tycoon Gordon Gekko famously uttered the words, “greed is good.” But, for real life CEOs with...

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  • Belt Tightening in Recession

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-BeltTightening01.mp3You can’t control the world, but you can lead your company through a downturn. How? In this Tough Things...

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  • Quiet Quitting: How to reverse it in the age of remote work.

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-QuietQuitting01.mp3Quiet quitting isn’t just a buzzword, it’s happening. In this Tough Things First podcast, Ray Zinn discussing this costly...

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  • The Right Company Hires the Right Person

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-HiringAdvice01.mp3In thirty-seven years as CEO of Micrel Semiconductor, Ray Zinn has done his share of hiring at all levels....

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  • How to not be your employees friend and still have a good working relationship

    Friendly, Not Friends

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-FriendlyNotFriend01.mp3Entrepreneurs can either learn this quickly or slowly, but eventually they’ll learn or fail. Relationships with employees are about...

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  • Leadership strategies for managing work stress

    Strategies for Managing Work Stress

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Ray-Rob-WorkStress01.mp3No matter what phase a company is in, or the level of employee or management, work stress goes with...

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  • How to identify and cure a toxic corporate culture

    Toxic Corporate Culture

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    http://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/RayGuy-ToxicCulture01.mp3How do toxic corporate cultures arise, and how do you cure them? The Silicon Valley leader with the lowest employee...

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  • Distilling an elevator pith is like polishing a diamond

    Polishing Your Business Narrative

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    Your business idea is like a diamond hauled from the dirt. You have to clean it off and polish...

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