If you really stop and think about it for a few seconds, the whole idea of “asking good questions” is really important to (a) society and (b) work. (“Relationships” would fit here too.) No one knows everything — although there… Continue Reading
This is a great post by Josh Bersin at Forbes if you’re the type of person who believes in employee engagement and the development of corporate culture, which you might not be. (This might be your attitude.) I recommend you… Continue Reading
Actually thinking for a second about what you do and why you do it — rather than just headlong racing into it — can actually make a huge difference in your success (even to teams believe this stuff is a “soft skill”). Continue Reading
Was scrolling through Forbes this morning and came across this article, which is predominantly about Sheryl Sandberg trying to ban the word “bossy” from business discourse. I personally have really mixed feelings about Sheryl Sandberg (more on that at another… Continue Reading
I wrote a little bit about the Dunning-Kruger effect once before, and now there’s an extension of it described in The Washington Post (based on this research paper). First, let’s talk about the experiment and what it was aiming to… Continue Reading
Right Management — a subdivision of Manpower Group — did a survey about career development and managers’ roles within it. Here are the results. Here’s probably the section you should pop a couple of Ambien before you read: According to the… Continue Reading
In the course of writing this blog, I’ve come across some (admittedly designed as clickbait) headlines about management and leadership that really depress me. For example: “82 Percent Of Managerial Hires Are The Wrong One.” Ditto: “95 Percent Of Managers Don’t… Continue Reading
Per here, the four types of work productivity styles are: Prioritizer: Logical, analytical, fact-based thinking is preferred. Planner: Organized, sequential, planned, detailed thinking is preferential. Arranger: Focus is on supportive, expressive, and emotional thinking. Visualizer: Holistic, intuitive, and integrated thinking… Continue Reading