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Leaders: Looking to “Find Your Next” Competitive Edge? | Read Andrea Kates
New ideas intrigue me. So when I was contacted by Andrea Kates to comment on her newly released book, Find Your Next: Using the Business Genome Approach to Find Your Company’s Next Competitive Edge, I...
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Leading Employees Who Don’t See Things Your Way | Handling Disagreement
Leadership is no cakewalk. It takes guts, resilience, clear-headedness, and sensitivity. Okay, it takes lots more too. But the real challenge for leaders is their employees. Each one has their own set...
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Making the Right Connections? Take a Fresh Look at the Pieces.
Too often we think we’ll find success if we just meet the right people. Sometimes that’s so. But we can waste a lot of time cozying up to influencers, just to discover that they aren’t interested in...
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Why You Need to “Kill the Company” Before It Kills You
At first I hesitated when asked if I wanted to take a look at Lisa Bodell’s new book. Her somewhat startling title, Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution, made me wonder...
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The Coveted Manager Job–Grappling with a 3-Headed Monster
Finally, you’re a manager. You are now responsible for bigger things. The way you lead and the performance of your employees are what determine your value. Pretty heavy stuff, eh? We often covet those...
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Dumb Stuff Happens If We Let It. Do You? | Change to the Rescue
Change fascinates me, so when I was invited to review and blog about Neil Smith’s new book, How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things, I was all in and never looked back. Do you gnash your teeth about:...
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(No) Thanks for (Not) Giving at the Office | Selflessness at Work
“I gave at the office! ” That’s the put-off line used by many when asked for yet another donation to a charity, special cause, or fund-raiser. It’s a kind of cop out to stop the asking, whether we gave...
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Engaging Employee Minds and Hearts | Marketing Tools for Nonprofits
It’s special to write a post inspired by the new book by my friend, Sybil Stershic, a champion of the key role employees play in the success of any organization. Sybil gives voice to the intimate...
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Ingredients for Becoming the Complete Executive–Fold Together and Serve
It’s hard to resist the opportunity to sample secret sauce ingredients for executive success. So, when invited, I was happy to taste the morsels in Karen Wright’s new book, The Complete Executive: The...
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Invested in Your Job or Just Doing It? 7 Acts of Ownership | Embracing Crises
Some days our jobs feel mundane. The work has become repetitive, our colleagues predictable, and our roles unchanging. Our don’t-rock-the-boat boss gives us less and less room to be creative or engaged...
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Insensitive, Divisive, or Self-Serving? Taking on Problem Behaviors |“You” Power
You experience them. You may even mention them–things that are done and said at work that aren’t right. We don’t do our jobs in a vacuum. We have to interact with others. The attitudes and behaviors of...
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How Supervising a Small Group Prepares You for the Big Stage | Learning to Lead
Bad supervisors are everywhere. Some know they’re bad and don’t care. Some are clueless. But most desperately want to do better. Most of us don’t want to go to work and be known for doing a poor job....
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Sleeping with Failure? There’s Success Under the Covers. | Undaunted Leadership
Failure happens in spite of our best efforts to avert it. Fear of impending failure can be haunting, even crippling. It can drain our self-confidence, crush our optimism, and stress our every move. It...
View ArticleA Controlling Mindset: The Bane of the Boss of Bosses | Smart Leaders–Smarter...
Insights into leadership behaviors, ones that work and those that don’t, often come with personal epiphanies that are jarring at first and then helpful starting points. There was plenty of that in...
View ArticleFired, Downsized, or Eased Out–Helping Employees Save Face
It’s awful. Letting employees go, no matter what the circumstance, is a dreaded task for most managers. That’s often the reason why they: put the task off for too long tell HR to take care of it find a...
View ArticleRelief for Leaders–Understand What Keeps You Up at Night
I couldn’t resist the invitation to write a post about Nicole Lipkin’s new book with this irresistible title: What Keeps Leaders Up at Night: Recognizing and Resolving Your Most Troubling Management...
View ArticleAhead of the Curve or Behind the Eight Ball? | Averting Criticism
Criticism lies in wait for us at work. Sometimes we can anticipate it and sometimes not. Most of us learn to live with a few doses of negative feedback, especially when we have the opportunity to...
View ArticleSupervising Employees Who Hate Their Jobs? Step In or Pay the Price.
Grumbling is one thing; hating quite another. Every job includes things we don’t like but hating is big. Funny isn’t it, that when we start a new job, we’re so gung-ho. The work, the challenge, and...
View ArticleEmployee Behavior Troubling You? Time to Intervene.
“What you resist, persists.” Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist/psychotherapist, is credited with this powerful quote. If more supervisors followed it, fewer problems would develop on their watch. Sadly,...
View ArticleWhen Hiring an Outside Consultant Can Make a Manager’s Problem Worse
You just can’t take it anymore. You’re a manager with a supervisor whose work group is in shambles. You’ve had multiple performance discussions with the supervisor and recorded deficiencies in his/her...
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