Leadership

The Employee Happiness Quotient
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Unhappy employees don’t contribute much and rarely stay for long. Micrel, the semiconductor company I founded and led for...
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How to control events and employees without actually controlling them
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Dictators are typically unpopular and short-lived. It is little wonder. People are by nature free agents, and resist being...
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Passion and stress: Firing up the team without burning them out
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Passion is a good thing. During the 37 years at the helm of Micrel, we fired up our employees...
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Momentum: how to keep employees engaged and energetic for the entire year
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Keeping people engaged and energetic for the entire year, or an entire decade, is like auto maintenance. The dials,...
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When Bonuses Aren’t
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A $100,000 Christmas bonus check will certainly get your receptionist’s attention. An oil and gas company in Texas did...
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Entrepreneurial Stall Horns
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Adapted from Tough Things First, by Ray Zinn My stall horn sounded, telling me I was about to crash...
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The Secret to Employee Happiness
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What CEO doesn’t wish for an office filled with happy, creative and hyper-productive employees? The fact is, CEOs who...
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Four steps to stop entrepreneurial procrastination
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I saw Warren Muller, my co-founder at Micrel, pulling an oil tray from under his automobile and pouring the...
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A Company Divided Against Itself …
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To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, a company divided against itself cannot stand. The foreshadowed collapse comes from office politics, a...
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Smarter CEOs: How to manage your presence
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Seth Godin recently identified some reasons why CEOs can be stupid, and he almost found the central theme (almost,...
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Building Boomerang Employees
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Boomerang employees are proof that your corporate culture is healthy. “I knew that Micrel was the best place that...
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How Leaders Do Better Than Their Best
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Famed Admiral Rickover once stunned Ensign Jimmy Carter (yes, a future U.S. President) who had admitted to maybe not...
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Bottle Rockets and Hoists
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Here in Silicon Valley, most startups are like bottle rockets: they fly fast, look great, explode and vanish in...
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Executive Ethics and the Rudderless Ship
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Entrepreneurs often provide the ethics of their entire organization. Those that don’t oversee chaos. Ethics are systems of moral...
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The Employee Happiness Quotient

How to control events and employees without actually controlling them

Passion and stress: Firing up the team without burning them out

Momentum: how to keep employees engaged and energetic for the entire year

When Bonuses Aren’t

Entrepreneurial Stall Horns

The Secret to Employee Happiness

Four steps to stop entrepreneurial procrastination

A Company Divided Against Itself …

Smarter CEOs: How to manage your presence

Building Boomerang Employees

How Leaders Do Better Than Their Best

Bottle Rockets and Hoists

Executive Ethics and the Rudderless Ship