Leadership

  • Tough Things First Podcast

    Tough Things First Podcast Launches

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    The Tough Things First Podcast launched today. As if I were not busy enough. Several people have told me...

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  • Entrepreneur Stress

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    “If it wasn’t for the stress, I’d never get anything done!” Every entrepreneur gets a bucket of stress, but...

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  • 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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  • Ray Zinn - happy employees

    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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  • Procrastination workshops postponed

    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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