Leaders don’t enjoy firing people. They may feel relief after they’ve done so, but rarely joy. Even Donald Trump seems to feel a measure of regret when he fires someone. Leaders want to inspire their team members to improve and become success stories. They want to find a way—perhaps the only way—to turn struggling employees [...]
You can stumble on your next career or be deliberate about choosing one. This post explores how you can elevate your game and learn what career insights you may be withholding from friends and loved ones?
Leaders need to know not only how to run a good meeting, but also when NOT to hold one. In this article you will learn the ten reasons why a meeting should be canceled or rescheduled.
For leaders who want to hold successful meetings–rather than feel held up or held hostage by them–here are eight steps to take: 1) Get chapter and verse on all attendees. Review their recent activity on web sites, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin. Know your audience. 2) State the purpose of the meeting and the outcome [...]
Many leaders want to change self-defeating behaviors and beliefs, but desire isn’t enough. Here are 10 ways to ensure positive changes stick: 1) Hire a coach or consult a mentor to help you locate and define the change you wish to make; 2) Brainstorm potential barriers; 3) Plan counter-moves for each potential barrier; 4) Break [...]
“The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.”–Socrates Unlike a computer that makes no meaning or connections between the information it retains, your brain relies upon connections. It stores related sensory data together, which enables you to recognize patterns and make predictions. For example, you may not think you are always finishing [...]
When leaders get a new vision or goal, they usually want to get there as quickly as possible. They start envisioning the steps they need to take. These steps are big and bold and, for them, doable. But the steps aren’t always doable for their team. Some teams can’t make big, bold leaps; they execute [...]
Leaders can wear anything from battle armor to, well, nothing (remember “The Emperor’s New Clothes”?). A recent study indicates that maybe leaders (and their team members) should be wearing more white lab coats. Two researchers at the Kellogg School of Management found that people who wore a white lab coat displayed significantly higher selective and [...]
As a leader, you know the importance of hiring good people (as well as the cost of making poor hires), so you lay out role and responsibilities for each position, using very specific and explicit expectations. You modify job descriptions to address past oversights or new circumstances. And yet, six months or a year after [...]
Leaders want to stand out. They want to separate themselves from other leaders, their coworkers, and their predecessors. It’s helpful for leaders to remember, however, the importance of fitting in with the group and the power of social contagion. In order to maintain our social bonds, we mimic others. We buy what they buy, watch [...]
Today’s leadership tip comes from thermodynamics. The old adage “a watched pot never boils” reminds us that time passes slower when you’re waiting. On the other hand, if the fire or stove is hot enough, the water does, in fact, boil, whether it’s watched or not. You can watch the bubbles, tiny at first, climb [...]
In a TED talk, Dan Gilbert asks the audience if they would be happier winning the lottery or becoming paraplegic. If you’re like most, you’d answer lottery winner. And you’d be right…for a while. It turns out that a year after winning the lottery or becoming paraplegic, people are equally happy. We synthesize happiness, so [...]
Lots of leaders espouse the value of teamwork, but the quality and quantity of work that teams generate depends a lot on how teams are constructed and evaluated. In 1913, Max Ringelmann discovered that men pulled harder on a rope when they were alone than when they were in the group. The more people in [...]
Leaders don’t always operate democratically, but most will solicit views from team members before making decisions. They may ask for a show of hands or “aye” votes. These votes often come after the group has gotten a sense of the leader’s and/or majority opinion. As a result, dissenters may not voice their opinions (if they’re [...]
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