For the past month, Ted and I hosted some extraordinary thinkers who ruminated on the value, application and future of employee engagement. First we want to thank all who participated. We learn from you and are honored to share your voice on this important topic. This brings me to a question I want to […] Read more… Read More»
Scroll below to find the first four posts in the series. Great stuff from Ellen Weber, Roy Saunderson, Tanveer Naseer, and Todd Dewett It’s estimated that employees and managers give ⅓ of their adult lives to employers. Layer that sobering percentage with an October 2011 Gallup finding that seventy-one percent of American Workers are either […] Read more… Read More»
Somewhere in countless, windowless meeting rooms, we lost our hearts at work. Hearts have gone missing. Trampled upon mistaken for roaches. Many seen fleeing office buildings away from the abundant fluorescent lighting. Hearts have grown weak from a lack of use; told they aren’t needed and to make room for the brains, hands, and feet. […] Read more… Read More»
Command and control leadership will always be an option for managers. For as long as any one manager unquestionably believes his ideas and ways are better than another’s, then command and control will thrive. That’s hardly notable. What is worth examining is what impels a manager to choose command and control leadership. I believe the […] Read more… Read More»
My client asked if I planned to “go dark” while on vacation. She asked in an encouraging manner that I appreciated. I was going dark. I had no intentions to check emails, voice mails, or write a blog post. I just completed my MBA. As a working professional and working on my master’s degree, I […] Read more… Read More»
It seems incompetent leadership is worrying employees. Right Management surveyed employees to find out what they want to avoid in their next job. Apparently 51% want to avoid incompetent bosses. The results aren’t surprising given the typical management trajectory in this post-Great Recession era. By typical I’m referring to the hyper focus on tangible management […] Read more… Read More»
The era that placed managers as the paragons of leadership commandeering business to success is dead. This inflated sense of importance has led to rampant egotism felling once great companies to ruins. Think Enron. Think Lehman Brothers. Think Standard Chartered. Think Bernie Madoff’s company. Certainly it takes a strong personality to lead, no matter the […] Read more… Read More»
With two blades that serve as the lower half of his legs, Olympian Oscar Pistorius defies categorization by his disability. I wonder if he even sees not having two full flesh legs as a disability? Oscar’s determination and fight to participate in this year’s Olympics is a story we all know. His compelling story holds […] Read more… Read More»
When Charlene Li published Open Leadership my friends and I groaned. We wished we had written the book. Charlene masterfully helped us peer into the influence of social technology and the transformative reaches its having on business and leadership. Since Open Leadership, the roots of social technology have only grown stronger. Some research shows that […] Read more… Read More»
I want to obliterate the phrase “doing more with less” from managers’ communications. Set aside the fact the hackneyed phrase has lost its meaning. You can cue the synchronized rolling of the eyeballs from every employee as the words escape the manager’s lips. It’s a thoughtless phrase that covers up the real truth: “I have […] Read more… Read More»
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