The Virtue of Impatience
The old bromide is that patience is a virtue – and at times that is obviously true. Leaders do indeed need to listen well, avoid knee-jerk reactions, and seldom make decisions fueled by anger. But it is also true that patience should …
Want the Full Employee Performance Picture?
Some leaders fail to grasp the importance of opinion polling regarding how their staff is perceived. These leaders work from a premise that if they are happy with how their staff members are performing, then things are good…but such is not necessarily …
What You Need to Know for Job Interview Success
When being considered for a job, there are two ways that you can be assured of an offer. Convince the decision maker that with you as an employee they will have more money at the end of the year. Convince the decision …
What Every New Manager Needs to Know
Being asked to lead a team of people as a new manager means taking on accountability for both the production of the team as well as the individual performance of each team member. Some people step into a leadership role naively self-confident …
Check Your Premises
Good decision making requires the maintenance of rational thought – and few things are more conducive to that objective than an adherence to something most of us were taught in middle school: the scientific method. The scientific method encourages us to develop …
Dr. Laura & The Pursuit of Clarity
William F. Buckley was the founding editor of a publication called National Review. He also hosted a TV program called Firing Line from 1966 to 1999 where he and another intellectual would have a deep and almost always insightful conversation for a …
Productivity – Some MindSet Thoughts
One of my more intellectually interesting and inquisitive friends recently asked me an interesting question: What is the most potent driving force for spurring productivity? It was a question that I had not previously considered. As I now reflect, it seems that …
Dear Seeking Wisdom
The short essay below comes from an advice column written by a lady who goes by Dear Sugar – her real name is Cheryl Strayed. Dear Sugar received a letter from a reader (who used the name: Seeking Wisdom) asking Dear Sugar …
So You Have A Culture Code, Now What?
Most companies have a list of cultural values. The existence of such a listing is neither meaningful nor impressive unless the company can specify what it’s DOING with those values. A more current term for “values” is Culture Code – and it’s …
How Do You Listen?
Leaders do a lot of listening. We just often do it wrong. Jennifer Garvey Berger, the CEO of a London-based coaching and consulting company called Cultivating Leadership, has laid out a brilliant model for categorizing three types of listening. It is smart …
