How to create a mentorship culture at your job

I think the concept of ‘making an impact for other people’ — or having influence, or getting people to listen to you — are ideas that we sometimes reserve for professors, or authors, or ‘thought leaders,’ or CEOs, or motivators.… Continue Reading

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What’s making you the most distracted at work?

Distractions-at-Work

If you look above, it’s not social media — which I bet most employers (as opposed to employees) would say. It’s actually water/coffee and bathroom breaks, which makes some sense: the former (hopefully not the latter) are ways to socialize with co-workers, and socialization/having friends… Continue Reading

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Quick Happiness Hack: Take Facebook off your phone

Happiness-Hack-Take-Facebook-Off-Your-Phone

Like several people I know, I’ve long had a weird, kinda love-hate relationship with Facebook. To wit? I’ve considered out-and-out quitting it a few times, but … FOMO I honestly think there’s something to the idea that it’s reduced true… Continue Reading

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Is good leadership contagious?

Is-Good-Leadership-Contagious

There’s something called ‘social contagion theory,’ which essentially posits that behaviors or attitudes can spread through a network in the same way that diseases do. For example, if you have happy friends, you’re 25 percent more likely to be happy. If you… Continue Reading

Poor priority management = lack of organizational trust

Poor-Priority-Management-In-Organizations

There’s some new research from MIT’s Sloan School of Management about senior managers within organizations and their understanding of priorities, and it’s not exactly pretty. (Here’s a summary of some of the work from Fast Company.) The participants included 11,000 senior… Continue Reading

The most granular piece of leadership advice ever

Granular Leadership Advice

Ah, Saturday morning. Coffee. Business blogs and websites. Reading about leadership. I’m a total nerd. Here’s an article on Fast Company entitled “How To Implement Change Without Making Your Employees Hate You,” which certainly seems like a noble goal for any organization. The… Continue Reading

23 Ways To Approach Leadership

23 Approaches to Leadership

Leadership is an interesting concept. At one level, it’s massively complex. There are entire sections of the publishing industry devoted to it, and we fly people all over the world to discuss it. It’s probably a billion-dollar industry onto itself.… Continue Reading

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2015 was one of the worst years of my life. Let’s dance, 2016.

Ted Bauer 2015 Not Ideal

2015 was a bad year for me. It happens, and in the specific case of ’15, a bunch of it was on me. I ain’t running from that. Failure is an important thing to discuss. I got a bunch of it… Continue Reading