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
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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
Process improvement: End ‘process for the sake of process’
Process is supposed to make business better and more effective. If it’s not doing that — if it’s just there to be there or make people feel better — then it’s totally worthless. Continue Reading
Difficult conversations at work: A how-to
The sheer fact of the matter is … most managers are uncomfortable talking to their employees. It’s been proven time and time again in research. As a result, difficult conversations are going to happen. How do you manage them? Continue Reading
How to give feedback: Lessons from John Wooden
How to give feedback is a pretty big business topic that we don’t often seem to discuss. Hell, so is feedback in general. I’m a pretty big fan of the whole idea of ‘feedback’ and ‘giving feedback’ and feel like… 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