Editor’s Note: We are honored to run a mini-series called The Values Revolution authored by our very own leaguer, Dana Theus. This is article 4 in the series. Be sure to check out the rest of the series HERE. If you’re leading people today, you have the problems of employee dissatisfaction and values misalignment described in […] Read more… Read More»
Editor’s Note: We are honored to run a mini-series called The Values Revolution authored by our very own leaguer, Dana Theus. This is article 3 in the series. Be sure to check out the rest of the series HERE. While worker dissatisfaction trends are generally documentable, and I documented them in Part 1 and Part 2 […] Read more… Read More»
Editor’s Note: We are honored to run a mini-series called The Values Revolution authored by our very own leaguer, Dana Theus. This is article 2 in the series. Be sure to check out the rest of the series HERE. In Part 1 I outlined a growing problem leaders in large organizations face today, which is the […] Read more… Read More»
Editor’s Note: We are honored to run a mini-series called The Values Revolution authored by our very own leaguer, Dana Theus. This is article 1 in the series. Be sure to check out the rest of the series HERE. There’s a quiet revolution happening in the cubicles and hallways of America’s companies. According to the […] Read more… Read More»
One of the cool things about modern discussions of leadership is that we now recognize that “leadership” is available to everyone, at every level of every kind of organization – or no organization at all. Anyone can lead and can even start a movement, simply by influencing the person next to them to influence […] Read more… Read More»
“The shortest distance between two points is under construction.” Leo Aikman Getting from A to B always seems so simple until you encounter the devil in the details. We learn in B school that profits come from high demand, meeting customer needs, low costs, effective sales and flawless delivery. Of course when things are […] Read more… Read More»
(Another) Open Letter to Corporate Leadership: Do you run a meritocracy? Does your company promote only the best and brightest? Is your hiring process color- and gender-blind? If you said yes to any of the above, the chances are that your company is none of those things. Why? Because our biases towards hiring white […] Read more… Read More»
Open Letter to Corporate Leadership: I want to dispel a myth that still circulates in our economy when people try to explain why the percentage of women on the management track plummets from 53% of the entry-level workforce to 20% or less in leadership. The myth goes something like this: “Women get to childbearing age […] Read more… Read More»
If you write a leadership blog, you know the challenge of dredging the stock photo sites for perfectly politically correct photos of happy business women and men sporting every hue of skin color from creamy white to chocolate brown. If you actually run a business, you know the photo-dredgers have it easy when it comes […] Read more… Read More»
We all have defining moments in our careers. And those times when we triumph over adversity and show our leadership strengths (and weaknesses) we peer further into what we are made of as human beings. Truth is we rarely get these insights because of our own actions. Such insights are often accompanied by the support […] Read more… Read More»
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