Brakston

Brakston is a division of Alder Koten that focuses on high potential professionals and managers on a development path for executive positions.

08/15/2025

Prepare for your next interview. Take a look at the top 5 interview questions and some DOs and DON’Ts.

Doing your homework is an important part of interviewing. So be prepared with your answers and be aware of the hidden messages that you will convey.

08/14/2025

It’s no coincidence that most CEOs come from the operations or the finance side of the business. They tend to have responsibility of managing a profit and loss statement with great understanding of what levers need to be pulled to achieve desired financial results.

If you want a top job or any management position for that matter, you must have evidence of taking care of the money and making it grow. Let's call it "The Money Competency".

08/13/2025

Great managers aren’t necessarily great leaders and great leaders aren’t always great managers. Some characteristics overlap, of course, but the distinctions are both real and important.

When it comes to business, growing and succeeding requires more than just maintaining the status quo. To do that, you need people who are leaders – not just managers.

08/12/2025

The autocratic organization relies heavily on defined lines of authority, a strict division of work, and control. The participative organization relies heavily on interdependence, trust, and empathy.

By Jose Ruiz | Alder Koten Institute | Gonzaga University Organizational Culture: The elephant in the room In 2006 Mark Fields, then President of Ford Motor Company hung Peter Drucker’s quote “Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast” in their war room. “Mark was keenly aware that no matter ho...

08/11/2025

We can choose to be a leader or a manager. However, while we can define management and leadership as two distinct roles, they coexist in the same person, and we require both to be successful in personal and professional endeavors.

Great leadership entails a holistic and not a mechanistic approach. It requires a delicate balance between satisfying short-term requirements and sacrificing time and resources today for the benefit of tomorrow.

08/08/2025

Dates, titles, responsibilities and education are part of the explicit side of your story. But you won’t be successful if you attempt to explicitly convey leadership skills, behaviors, strategic thinking or other business and leadership competencies.

Every resume is a one-of-a-kind communication mechanism with both explicit and implicit messages. It should be appropriate to your situation and the story you want to tell.

08/07/2025

Most people fail to ask themselves a precious question: Why would a company hire me over someone else? It’s not easy since you will seldom know who you are going up against but there are easy ways to benchmark your resume and it’s a question that can keep you on your feet.

The answer to the value of what you have to offer can’t be isolated from the context.

08/06/2025

We live, work, and play in social circles that make the world appear small. Our blind side, the part outside of what we see and live every day, is actually much larger than what we tend to believe and accept.

Bottom line: You cannot afford to drift and let outside factors define your future and your career. Take control, take ownership and drive it.

08/05/2025

It is crazy to assume that an organization can commit to an employee for life, just as crazy as an employee committing to an organization for life. It could happen under the right conditions, but one cannot assume or guarantee that it will.

True loyalty in an employment relationship takes into consideration what will happen to the other party when the business relationship ends.

08/04/2025

The product of You is built by everything you do: every job, every training course, every challenge, every achievement, every failure, every social and personal endeavor. They will all define who you are and what you can offer in the next step of your career.

Today, in the age of the individual, you have to be your own brand” Be “the CEO of Me Inc.”

08/01/2025

Globalization is transforming the market and it’s transforming your career. There is no margin for error and any half-effort is a wasted effort.

Don’t expect the organization you work for to plan your career, establish your direction and pay for training you need to achieve your long-term goals.

07/31/2025

The ideal executive does not exist. There is no such thing as branding a person as an A, B, or Z type since our behaviors are driven by the environment and context.

By Jose J. Ruiz | Alder Koten The premise is that the ideal executive does not exist. Our research indicates that there is no such thing as branding a person as an A, B, or Z type since the environment and context drive our behaviors. Great managers and leaders adapt, and their styles tend to […]

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