Companies mostly get it wrong about defining purpose
You can’t get to ideas like “purpose” and “engagement” through Excel and project management. Continue Reading
Management
Leadership should actually be about making as FEW decisions as possible
Counter-intuitive, but potentially 100 percent accurate. Continue Reading
Want to change someone’s attitude? Get certainty with consensus, repetition, ease, and defense
A big part of life — and a huge part of work — is the ability to change someone’s attitudes or beliefs when they seem entrenched in one direction (say, on a particular project or course of action). I wrote before about… Continue Reading
Assigned mentorship is dead. So what next?
The concept of “mentorship” is fairly important, insofar as young people come into workplaces unclear of the responsibilities and expectations and policies and politics (in part because their higher education experiences don’t prepare them for that), and having someone to help you… Continue Reading
Can we solve the problem with job descriptions?
Probably not. Continue Reading
MLK was a flawed man. Maybe that’s the point.
Here’s a couple of concepts we generally know about MLK, but don’t often discuss: He cheated on his wife He smoked cigarettes fairly regularly; his autopsy at 39 claimed his heart was about 60 He apparently plagiarized portions of his doctoral dissertation… Continue Reading
Here are, apparently, four qualities to make you a better leader
Via a study from McKinsey of 189,000 people in 81 global organizations, here are four behaviors that will apparently make you a better leader: Being supportive Having a strong results orientation Seeking different perspectives Solving problems effectively Let’s unpack this, shall… Continue Reading
Here’s an incredible stat about lack of leadership training
I come across posts like this one all the time, that in turn have images like this: In a way, it can all be BS — 42 percent seems like a high number in some respects, but what does that really mean? Isn’t the… Continue Reading