About Tom Marin

Tom Marin is an organizational consultant at MarketCues, a specialized firm he founded serving CEOs of companies focused on growth. He is the author of the book, RETHINK: An Inside Look At Smart Organizational Strategy, the architect of the SmartPlan360™ SaaS program that helps companies rethink foundational assumptions about alignment, integration, awareness and relevance. His consulting and coaching work spans four decades of serving senior leaders of private, public and nonprofit institutions. He produced the Rethink For A Change Workshop Series that has engaged leadership teams throughout the US. He holds Certificates in the DiSC Application Suite, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, ACT the Agile Model, and he is an accredited member of the national and international chapters of the Business Marketing Association. Tom received his Bachelor's in Social Science and Education from Northern Illinois University.

Build a great company by building a great team

  To build a great company, you need to build a great team because without them you will be hard-pressed to get beyond your current growth stage. The greatest leaders have always ascribed their success to their team. Listen to a few famous quotes from some well-known leaders: “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence [...]

Roles or Rolls: You Decide

Defining roles in an organization for every single employee is mandatory. Those that don’t operate at their peril. The risk of not operating with clearly defined roles — is employees' rolling right out of the organization! This was far less common just five years ago. Still, with all the evaluations and workplace changes employees and employers [...]

Looking at your organization from 35,000 feet

A high-level perspective can reveal your organization’s parts and pieces and can assist you in identifying what is in alignment and what isn’t. Of all the principle foundations you could choose to begin, vision is often the missing dimension that prevents an otherwise effective organization from excelling. Perhaps your organization has excellent products and service support [...]

All emphasis equals no emphasis

  When an organization has far too many strategic initiatives and projects underway, it will overload the organization’s capacity to produce them. Michael Porter wrote, “If the essence of strategy is choosing what not to do then the essence of execution is not doing it.”  That might sound simple, but the fact is most organizations [...]

The Start Stop Continue Workshop

  Do you ever really “arrive” in your business life? Once you do, does that mean you can turn off the juice and just coast? It really doesn’t work that way, does it. Instead, what I have experienced and learned while running my business is, you never arrive. One of the most important “cues” for [...]

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