It’s never easy to leave a job that helped you grow significantly, no matter how great an opportunity is. I’ve been in this situation throughout my soccer career, but it still translates well in the business world. In order to help others who have decided to leave their current position, I wanted to share a …
Walking into the gym last week, I heard a woman on a cable news program introducing a panel that was going to be discussing North Korea, or guns, or something cable-news-y. As I was walking away, I heard her mention that there were three women on the panel and “only” one man and he was …
A few weeks ago, I had to let two people go. Two really good, nice, decent, hardworking people. People who, in the past, I’d have probably kept on much longer than the nine months they worked for me. I always tell people that firing someone who did you wrong is easy. Someone who lies, …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lacy Starling President and Fearless Leader lacy@jointhelegion.com (513) 532-6652 Legion Logistics Announces LegionDrive Incentive Program Florence, KY – Legion Logistics is excited to announce a new employee incentive program in partnership with Wyler Fastlane. The LegionDrive program will provide Legion’s top salespeople access to the …
Most people who have just graduated college are looking for a job, a new car, or a new apartment away from school. But by the time I graduated from college in August 2017, I had already started my marketing and soccer career, bought a house, got engaged, and was preparing to become a father. Was …
It’s interview season again at Legion, and as usual, I’m astonished by the approach so many people take to interviews. I know that it’s an employee’s market out there right now, and we’re all scrapping for talent, but there has to be a limit to how desperate people think employers are. Or maybe people just …
Last week, I was at lunch with a colleague who had recently started a consulting company. She was telling me about her new venture and asked me what advice I had for her, as she was starting out, to help her through the difficult first year or so. (The first thing I told her was …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lacy Starling President and Fearless Leader lacy@jointhelegion.com (513) 532-6652 Legion Logistics Announces LegionEMS™ Florence, KY – Legion Logistics is excited to announce the launch of their new proprietary customer portal website, LegionEMS™, which allows customers to track their shipments in real time. Combined with LegionTrack™ a geo-location service, …
Last week, I got an interesting email from my M&A guy. At Legion, we are planning to possibly acquire another company this year, so he has been sending us information on potential targets, etc. He’ll usually send a link to a website and ask us our first impressions of the company, and then go from …