Management

  • 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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  • The key to hiring the best employees

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    Micrel had the lowest employee turnover rate in the American semiconductor industry, and the highest rate of boomerang (returning)...

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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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  • Scaling and Asparagus

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    Startups are too often like asparagus. Asparagus is an odd food. It grows very quickly (which makes it a...

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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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  • 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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