• Executive Director Non-Profit Association
  
  
• Senior Marketing Officer
  
  
• Commercial Real Estate Executive
  
  
• Senior HR Executive
  
  
• Vice President - Consulting
  
  
• Product Designer
  
  
• Chief Operating Officer Utilities

• National Sales and Marketing Executive
  
  
• Director -- Consumer Credit
  
  
• 2 - Executive Directors Non-Profit Association
  
  
• Senior Product Development Vice President
  
  
• Director - New Product Development -- Retail
  
  
• Vice President -- Organizational Development
  
  
• Division Officer -- Healthcare

In all seriousness, failure to make timely, tough decisions is very costly to companies. And many of these tough decisions involve people. Who is productive and who isn’t? How long do you stay with the one who is not producing?

Take a good look at everyone in your organization and ask yourself if you would hire them again. If not, why not? Why are they still on the payroll? Do this on a regular basis and then make the "tough decision." It will save you money.

Instill in your hiring managers the mentality to hire performers, even if it takes longer to do so. It may cost you more in salary, but it will payoff in the long run. If you have more high achievers on the payroll, you might not need to have the same number of employees.

Another Management Tip . . .

Return to "the old days" when you actually spoke to everyone and did not resort to emails. People are motivated more by the spoken word than the written word.