Tag: leadership
Great leaders bring stability
Many business leaders face extreme challenges during their career, but the coronavirus pandemic is uncharted waters for all. Most offices and stores are closed across...
Holding it together while working apart
“You need to make Andrew do his job!” My client, let’s call her Robin, received this text from her sales manager during their virtual leadership...
Be not afraid… of data
Consider three examples. The first involves Billy Beane, front office executive for the Oakland Athletics and the subject of Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball, who...
Innovative. Agile. Collaborative. Bold.
What’s equally striking is how difficult organizations are finding it to embed these qualities and behaviors in their people. That’s because the primary obstacle...
The invisible boss
My friend was giving it his all, but he needed more support and better feedback than he received. He wanted a leader who would...
How to push employees without stressing them out
First, let me explain why I was skeptical. I do sometimes feel enormous pressure, generally about our firm’s investment performance. Do I really feel...
The light of civility
Being respectful doesn’t just benefit you, though, it benefits everyone around you. In a study of nearly 20,000 employees around the world, I found...
Lincoln leadership lessons
Here’s what Honest Abe did, why it works and how it can make you a better leader. Get out of the office and circulate among...
Pat, the story
Secretly, she hoped for a management contract resulting from the previous pitches she made while regional VP at Legacy Partners. Instead, she was taken...
If you’re going to change your culture, do it quickly
Few organizations explicitly use culture as a way to drive business performance, or even believe it could make sense to do so. The logic...
Mindfulness as a business skill
That's right, consider mindfulness, usually associated with meditation and yoga, as a money-making business skill. Mindfulness is already known to be a rich concept. In...
How to lead when you’re not in charge
For all of the books (thousands) written on leadership, individuals (millions) who have participated in leadership seminars and dollars (billions) invested in leadership development,...
The dark side of charisma
However, the short-term benefits of charisma are often neutralized by its long-term consequences. There are big reasons to resist charisma: Charisma dilutes judgment. There are...
The one thing
Assertiveness gets a bad rap when people equate it with being pushy and annoying. But that shouldn't stop you from learning to apply it...
Credit due
Most leaders know not to act like the boss in the FedEx ad. But few think carefully enough about all the ways in which...
