The career ladder has a dangerous side
What happens if most of your management team is high-power, but low-respect/status individuals? Um. Nothing good. Continue Reading
Communications
Eight crucially effective leadership skills
This comes with some research via Google, and a bit more via Harvard and Stanford. Let’s see what we can suss out. Continue Reading
Leadership traits: Understand push vs. pull
You can force the message out, or you can get your people to be ride-or-die with you on the message. What’s your deal? Continue Reading
Effective feedback: Avoid ‘The Shit Wave’
“Why wasn’t this done exactly to my specs? Gahhhhhh!” (pause) “Well, even though you’re my manager, I haven’t spoken to you in six weeks.” Continue Reading
The Era of Professional Boundaries
… but unfortunately, it’s often designed to protect those already with power and influence. Continue Reading
Bad bosses: The circles of management hell
I’ve got a lot of experience with bad bosses (definitely more with that type than with good bosses, unfortunately); I’ve got so much experience with bad bosses, honestly, that I once wrote a post explicitly detailing the 12 worst types… Continue Reading
Management Skills 101: Failure happens
What if we worried less about chasing targets, and spent more time on real conversations about failure and how to grow from it? (As opposed to accusatory shouting about what didn’t happen.) Continue Reading
Idea generation is all about persistence
Idea generation would seem to be a pretty big topic in the working world, right? You can argue that ‘no original ideas are left’ — that’s definitely true in content marketing, baby! — or you can argue that the only… Continue Reading