The Surprising Reason It’s Lonely at the Top
View image | gettyimages.com According to Heather Gray, too many smart and successful people buy into the notion that success is ultimately a solo venture and a path that most will have to walk alone....
View ArticleFinding Your Voice and Learning to Lead
Embed from Getty Images A good leader is one who reflects on how they want to lead. Clay Boykin explains how he did just that. — Back in 1990, as I was beginning to find my stride inside Motorola, we...
View ArticleGood Cents: Why it Pays to be Social Media Responsible
Why make social media work for all humankind, and be savvy while doing it? Brittni Brown looks at the statistics. — Sometimes when we get wrapped up in the on-goings of our lives, it is easy to...
View ArticleGoogle’s Best Teams Have One Thing In Common – And It’s Not What You Think
Spoiler alert: it’s not the individual skills and achievements of their members—just about everyone at Google is a rock star. Many organization consultants claim that norms and culture are key...
View ArticleDid You Know Absence of Fairness Causes Job Related Burnout?
Embed from Getty Images Absence of fairness undermines or destroys the development of productive relationships with fellow coworkers. — A few years ago, just before retiring, a friend told me she was...
View ArticleWhy Nice Bosses Finish First
Many bosses assume that a leader needs to be aloof and tough on employees in order to be effective. They fear that looking “soft” will erode their employee’s motivation and respect for them. To prove...
View ArticleHow to Run a Work Meeting Like a Boss
The hot-shot product manager burst into the conference room 10 minutes late. “Sorry guys, I’m on ‘marketing time.’” The six of us already in the room had been waiting on him to start the meeting. Six...
View ArticleHere’s What Coworkers Think When You Suck up to Your Boss
Embed from Getty Images Trevor Foulk, University of Florida Few employees would deny that ingratiation is ubiquitous in the workplace. This behavior goes by many names – kissing up, sucking up,...
View ArticleWhy Almost All Rules and Policies Have Bad Outcomes
In my recent article, I explored how rules and policies are created with the best of intentions; as companies grow in size and complexity, leaders institute rules to mitigate the effects of hiring...
View ArticleThe Iron Fist Is Not an Effective Leadership Tool
Do you work in an environment where the leadership exerts their authority through a heavy handed approach to management? Do you feel threatened by the toxicity within the workplace? Do you consider the...
View ArticleWhy You Should Fire Them Now
Embed from Getty Images Here is a pattern I am seeing across the landscape in organizations, in fact I think it has become a disease, which I call “triggeritus”. It means we have managers who can’t...
View ArticleAre You a Leader or a Manager?
You will begin to cultivate an incredibly empowered workplace, when you display exceptional leadership. Would the world be a better place if every manager was a leader? If managers and leaders shared...
View ArticleWant to Be the Better Business? Start with Accountability!
Think about worst places where you have worked or make a list of vendors whose customer service was poor. I’m willing to bet that there’s a common denominator — a lack of accountability.Where there is...
View ArticleHow to Win Office Politics and Disarm Difficult Coworkers
Would you like to master office politics and make sure you’re never overlooked at work?In his book Conversation Tactics: Workplace Strategies—Win Office Politics, Disarm Difficult Coworkers, Get Ahead...
View ArticleHow to Create High-Performance, Super-Charged Teams
My previous blog explored the value of creating a team model based on the makeup of a hologram. A short recap: What happens when a hologram is cut or divided or cut into a number of pieces? Amazingly,...
View ArticleYour Sure-Fire Mobile Workforce Management Cheat Sheet
It’s possible that nothing has upended the status quo of the traditional office experience more than the mobile broadband revolution. The early part of the 21st century might as well have been...
View ArticleBad Manager Mistakes That Make Good People Quit
It’s pretty incredible how often you hear managers complaining about their best employees leaving, and they really do have something to complain about—few things are as costly and disruptive as good...
View ArticleCritical Ways Managers Motivate and Demotivate Employees
Few things are as costly and disruptive as managers who kill morale. Demotivated employees underperform and then walk out the door at the first opportunity.The scariest thing is how prevalent this...
View ArticleWhat Baseball Can Teach Us At Work
Can America’s favorite pastime improve workplace performance? L. Georgi DiStefano and Bill Eddy tell us how.—As both therapists and attorney we have spoken with hundreds of clients over the years....
View ArticleThe Surprising Reason It’s Lonely at the Top
View image | gettyimages.comAccording to Heather Gray, too many smart and successful people buy into the notion that success is ultimately a solo venture and a path that most will have to walk...
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