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Celebrate mistakes: Creating a culture of forgiveness
Your team is made up of some of the best — you have seen them in action and you know they’re great players. Every...
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If not the annual performance appraisal, then what?
The annual performance appraisal might be among the most reviled of time-honored workplace traditions. And it makes sense. Managers must invest countless hours in...
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Common mistakes leaders make during periods of fast growth
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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Are you the wrong type of “engaged” leader?
Much of what’s written about “employee engagement” focuses on how to get your employees more involved at work. As a leader at your company,...
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Why opposing viewpoints should be more important than cultural diversity
Diversity in company culture makes organizations better, period. Studies and feedback on some of the top work environments support this, and companies with any...
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What’s a connection culture, and how do we get there?
A new book comes up with a better definition of what a winning culture needs.
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“Leading Up”: Being a values-based leader at any level
Without question, what happens at the top — priorities established, strategies set or changed — cascades throughout the entire organization. How can it be...
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The secret of U2’s success
This post is an excerpt from “Connection Culture” (April 2015, Association for Talent Development) by Michael Lee Stallard Jason Pankau and Katharine P. Stallard,...
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12 ways to develop leadership confidence
I was in a talent review meeting recently, and we were discussing the strengths and development needs of a promising young leader. When I...
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15 tips for managing remote workers
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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The 3 levels of organizational alignment (and how to build them in your company)
Over 75 years ago, Chester Barnard published a landmark book called “The Functions of the Executive.” In it, he makes a key observation: “Successful...
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The leadership lessons from the Secret Service’s struggles — an interview with author and journalist Ronald Kessler
The continued struggles of the Secret Service are a series of failures and performance lapses that have gone on for several years. One person,...
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The risky business of leadership development
Business success today demands careful attention to risk management. Contingency plans, redundant systems, business continuity insurance, and countless other vehicles protect organizations from the...
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The best part of leading
Leadership is hard work. It takes making accurate decisions based often on inaccurate or incomplete data. It requires bringing about change and contending with...
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13 time-saving tips for continuous self-education
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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8 meeting commandants that we all need to follow
Designed by Freepik We all like to complain about meetings. Meetings are a waste of time, boring, inefficient, run too long, nothing gets accomplished,...
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14 things every employee manual should include
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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Lessons from 3 role models
I walked into our family room and caught my daughter and husband mid-conversation. The topics: discipline and responsibility, areas my daughter, like any 13-year-old,...
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4 reasons leaders need to share their knowledge
Tony Hsieh knows the value of knowledge sharing. The Zappos CEO could have kept his industry-changing standards for customer service, employee engagement, and corporate...
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To succeed today, you need wisdom
Leaders place great emphasis on productivity, teamwork, focus and other catch-words to improve company efforts. In our race to get ahead, we may be...
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How to work for a macromanager
No one wants to work for a micromanager. Micromanagers are control freaks, always breathing down their employee’s, telling them how to do everything and...
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Meetings: Decide what matters and who cares
This post is an excerpt from “MEETINGS MATTER: 8 Powerful Strategies for Remarkable Conversations,” (Jackson Creek Press, January 2015) by Paul Axtell. There is...
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The future of business is fast
This post is an edited excerpt from “When Millennials Take Over: Preparing for the Ridiculously Optimistic Future of Business,” (Ideapress Publishing, March 2015) by...
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How to give a promotion you won’t regret
Meet Will. Will was recently promoted to a management position after working with his company for nearly five years. Although he initially seemed right...
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The No. 1 way to retain great employees: Stay interviews
Don’t wait until an employee leaves to have an exit interview. Instead, keep your workers with a “stay” interview. This easy, inexpensive interview is...
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How are you helping employees have a productive and successful year?
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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4 things managers need to stop and start doing
Over the years, I’ve amassed a fair amount of information about what managers need to start and stop doing in order to be at...
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Harry Markopolos and the vulnerability of senior management to ignoring warnings
It’s been six years since the discovery of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme but more than 15 years since Harry Markopolos began warning the Securities...
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Rethinking the effects of power and hierarchy when responding to warnings
If someone were taking inappropriate or illegal actions in your organization, you, as a business leader, would hope that another employee who was aware...
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Will your company change or die?
Consider this: Few of the 500 largest corporations from 50 years ago exist today. They failed to change and became irrelevant, left behind by...
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Leadership lessons from the El Capitan climb
El Capitan in Yosemite National Park (Credit: Mike Murphy via Wikipedia) They did it! Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson climbed a rock that everyone thought...
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How to become an extraordinary leader
The leaders I know and love are successful and well-meaning. However, they have the potential to be even more successful if they pay attention...
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The truth about people and change — and what to do about it
Credit: macgyverhh/iStockPhoto One could argue that as a practice, change management is becoming accepted in larger organizations as “something we need to implement to...
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5 ways to work with millennial expectations
The new 20-something hire is walking down the hall with her eyes fixated on her phone screen again. Is this what the future of...
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Is kindness as important as toughness in leadership?
I once interviewed for a position where the hiring manager interrogated me mercilessly. The immediate impression I had of him as a leader was...
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The 6 saboteurs of positive role models
Young kids speak the truth, as anyone who’s ever been called out by a preschooler can tell you. I’ll never forget the time my...
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Are your employees people managers or subject-matter experts? How do you decide?
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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Restoring corporate trust: Why we must try
When I wrote about earning trust with co-workers last year, Rich Tafel of The Public Squared, a true leader in the public policy field,...
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A leader must be a “people person”
Most leaders proclaim that they’re not a “people person” even though they may act that way. I will sometimes discover through conversations with leaders...
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From team building to team bonding
Leaders, don’t settle for team-building; support the joint decision making, visioning and accomplishment that leads to genuine team bonding.
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Benefits of group travel team building
The success of your business depends on more than just the skills and abilities of each individual team member — your employees need to...
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Lessons on teamwork from really bad team members
The best managers understand that effective leaders are also solid team players. The workplace is filled with capable teammates — even some who take...