Leading People

Naughty or Nice?

Many of you have raised the question – How come there are so many highly successful assholes? Well…(sigh),  clearly, being…

18 years ago

Does your Work-at-Home Policy Work?

You want to provide the flexibility for people to work at home because: It works. They like it.  It’s motivating.…

18 years ago

Retaining Top People in this Ugly Economy

As times get more and more scary, don’t expect your high performers to keep knowing the company wants them.  Even…

18 years ago

Are you Leading or Managing?

A fundamental difference between Management and Leadership is this: Making sure the work gets done = Management Increasing capacity of…

18 years ago

Dealing with Problem Employees

Every moment you don’t deal with a problem employee, you are squandering credibility. Your team and your boss all notice…

18 years ago

Addiction to Detail

I have observed this particular organizational dysfunction throughout my entire career, but have never put my finger on a root…

18 years ago

Who has the best ideas?

Many things set highly successful people apart, but the one I want to talk about here is where they get…

18 years ago

Building Capacity

As managers it is critical part of our jobs to steadily build capacity in our teams - not just to…

18 years ago

Are you present?

Getting your whole team in the same room for a meeting these days is rare. Conference calls have become a…

18 years ago