Mark Botros
Category Archives: LEADERSHIP
Signs that your job may be in jeopardy
Environmental and performance signs that show you may be headed for a crash-and-burn professionally
One of the things many people fear is losing their employment. In fact, there is so much fear around this that I wrote an entirely separate post about it where I describe the conditions that people put up with just to avoid losing their job, or the pain of looking for another job (because frankly, […]
Why your Top Performers are not performing or worse … leaving
8 Strategies to help rock stars shine again
How I survived 6 rounds of layoffs, and lived to tell the tale
13 Strategies that improved my luck and kept me from getting a "Pink Slip"
Most organizations regardless of industry, size, or uniqueness, experiences times of great expansion and times of reduction. No one is immune, not even the federal government, which is known for its ability to expand in spite of whatever is happening in the economy. And if you believe juggernauts like Apple, Amazon, and Google could never […]
The Secrets of The Rainmaker
12 Essential skills of the best salespeople, account managers, program managers, and other brave client-facing people
Over the course of 25 years, I’ve met a lot of people. Some of the people who fascinate me the most are those brave “client-facing” individuals in sales, business development, program management, and account management. It takes a special type of person to go out there and risk rejection every day with every customer contact. […]
Vegas Marketing 101
My wife and I recently took a business trip to Las Vegas (For my international readers, Las Vegas, Nevada is the largest city for gambling and entertainment in the United States). While “Vegas” provided an absolutely memorable experience, I realized it has a lot to teach us about how businesses get noticed. Among them were […]
In Leadership, the ends do not always justify the means. If you kill your team to achieve a short-term outcome, people will remember and associate you with pain.
Mark Botros
What all Great Projects Have in Common
The 3 Most Important Aspects of Every Well-Run Project
In my 25 year career, I have led and been a part more projects than I can honestly count in just about every shape, size, scope, and dollar amount. The largest project I ever led personally was a 4 billion dollar project that spanned 2.5 years. I’ve also seen great, well-led projects and poorly-led, rope-a-dope […]
There is a direct relationship between the amount of cooperation you have in an organization and the number of resources you need. Specifically, the more cooperation you have, the less resources you need. The inverse is also true, the less cooperation you have the more resources are consumed on organizational structures, processes, systems, and governance that all exist to compensate for the lack of cooperation.
Yves Morieux
28 Healthy, Fun, and Motivating Ways to Reward Yourself
How You Know a Reward is a Good Reward
I’m a huge fan of productivity, but I’m an even bigger fan of giving yourself rewards when you’ve really earned them like overcoming procrastination and taking action on something you’ve been putting off. What follows is a list of ideas to reward yourself in a healthy, fun, and sustainable way. Admittedly, these are small rewards […]