Current Leadership: Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) – You’re Fired! -02.18.25
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith “It’s a cover up. It’s window dressing. None of these PIPs lead to improving performance. In most cases, it’s an excuse to walk you out the…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith “It’s a cover up. It’s window dressing. None of these PIPs lead to improving performance. In most cases, it’s an excuse to walk you out the…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith “Although GenAI has been surrounded by significant hype, it’s the real, tangible impacts that matter…but exponential transformation will come when we connect human creativity with GenAI…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith “My talented team and colleagues… (are) often driven by our KPIs, like viewership, subscriptions or followers…At the end of the day, our jobs are to fulfill…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith “We’re not a chain. We’re a mom-and-pop shop in every town,” Was a Pete Cancro quote from 2023; as reported in Wall Street Journal article, November…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith “Companies are poised to unleash these AI Voice Agents. We humans need to decide how we will adjust to a world flooded with near-human voices.” Quote…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith “The quality of our leaders is deteriorating and we’re so used to it it’s not alarming us anymore.” Quote from article by Peggy Noonan, Wall Street…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith “You’re going to have to pardon my French, but that’s complete BS.”Quote from article by Christopher Mims, Wall Street Journalist Review, October, 2024, about Yann LeCun,…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith “Bosses Rejoice! Amazon Delivers the End of Hybrid Work.” Wall Street Journal Exchange front-page article: September, 2024. Based upon the behavior of so many “bosses,” especially…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith “It will improve products you already own.” Article ‘Honestly, Here’s The Best Use for AI,’ by Christopher Mims, Wall Street Journal, September, 2024. There are two…
by Peter A. Arthur-Smith “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis, Famed leadership author (1929-2014) During the early twentieth-century Henry Ford was famously quoted as referring…