We’ve all been taught that the way to engage employees’ souls at work is to hire bright people, put them in the right roles and then get out of their way. Especially younger workers; they hate having someone hovering over them, checking up, providing guidance they don’t think they need. Micromanaging is a bad thing. [...]
[Continue reading...]Make Assets Your Adrenaline
February 14, 2011
Woody Allen via last.fm Woody Allen, the quintessential pessimist, said, “More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.” When we hear that, we laugh. It’s kind’a funny to look [...]
[Continue reading...]Bend, Don’t Break
January 31, 2011
“Resilient people are like trees bending in the wind,” said Steven Southwick, professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. “They bounce back.” Do you bounce back when life throws you a curve ball or a co-worker throws you under the bus? Resiliency is an extremely important quality to have as a leader, or [...]
[Continue reading...]This is Your Brain on E-Mail
January 14, 2011
If the medium is the message, what does that say about new survey results that found nearly 60 percent of respondents check their e-mail when they’re answering the call of nature? – Michelle Masterson, Channel Web Are you part of that 60 percent? Does this description of the average corporate worker from John Freeman sound [...]
[Continue reading...]The “Romance” of Interviewing
December 30, 2010
What if there were an even better way to figure out which candidate was most likely to succeed in your open position? Is there a better way than behavior-based interviewing, which about half of the Fortune 500 employers use? There is. At least there is according to Malcolm Gladwell, author of “The Tipping Point,” “Blink” [...]
[Continue reading...]Stay on Top. Stay out Front.
December 14, 2010
You’ve heard it said that business leaders need to, “work on the business, not in the business.” Do you agree? Getting mired down in the details can be deadly—for the leader and the business. Details are like quicksand. They suck you in and there is no bottom. There’s always one more email to answer, one more [...]
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