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Finding Your Voice and Learning to Lead
Embed from Getty ImagesA 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...
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Good 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 forget...
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Google’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...
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Did You Know Absence of Fairness Causes Job Related Burnout?
Embed from Getty ImagesAbsence 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...
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Why 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...
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How 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...
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Here’s What Coworkers Think When You Suck up to Your Boss
Embed from Getty ImagesTrevor Foulk, University of FloridaFew employees would deny that ingratiation is ubiquitous in the workplace.This behavior goes by many names – kissing up, sucking up,...
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Why 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...
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The 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...
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Why You Should Fire Them Now
Embed from Getty ImagesHere 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...
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Are 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...
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Want 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...
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How 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...
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How 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,...
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Your 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...
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Bad 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...
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Critical 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...
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5 Business Metrics Every Rookie Entrepreneur Should Focus on
Embed from Getty Images—“What you can’t measure, you can’t manage.”So goes the popular saying, and as wearying and tiresome as this saying is, it holds absolutely true in the business world.I’ve come...
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How to Manage Dumpster Fires
Embed from Getty ImagesManagers who reward fire drills create arsonists. This is one of the first bits of advice I received after starting work in the tech industry. At first it seemed obvious—why...
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Workplace Bullying — the Cost of Complicity
Embed from Getty Images—This weekend, I spent some quality time with my favorite geeks at Seattle Comic Con. After much deliberation, we decided to spring for a photo op with Tom Wilson (Biff) from...
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