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Episode 6: Challenges, faith and focus
Read morehttp://toughthingsfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/Tough-Things-First-Podcast-Episode-6-Entrepreneur-challenges-faith-and-focus.mp3Entrepreneurs must stay focused, keeping their eyes on the horizon. Doing so makes seemingly insurmountable obstacles look like fun challenges. Ray Zinn, Silicon Valley’s longest serving CEO, discusses how to keep focus when the life of a business leader seems...
Success with People
Read moreOriginally posted on LinkedIn Pulse “Mankind was my business,” wailed the ghost of Jacob Marley. In life, nothing is more important than people. This applies in the office as well as your living room. That so many corporate leaders...
Tough Things First Podcast Launches
Read moreThe Tough Things First Podcast launched today. As if I were not busy enough. Several people have told me that they enjoy my blog, and would like to follow my social media posts, but that they prefer to hear...
Entrepreneur Stress
Read more“If it wasn’t for the stress, I’d never get anything done!” Every entrepreneur gets a bucket of stress, but they handle it differently. The fellow I quoted above used stress as a motivational tool, dealing quickly with business issues...
The key to hiring the best employees
Read moreMicrel had the lowest employee turnover rate in the American semiconductor industry, and the highest rate of boomerang (returning) employees. I personally have hired hundreds of people and Micrel hired thousands. Hiring the right employee matters more than most...
The Employee Happiness Quotient
Read moreUnhappy employees don’t contribute much and rarely stay for long. Micrel, the semiconductor company I founded and led for 37 profitable years, had happy employees. We had the highest retention rate in the industry, and though it is not...