This month’s Business Leaders’ webinar was on
SUCCEEDING WITH VIRTUAL & REMOTE TEAMS
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Here is what we talked about:
In business today, it’s important to recognize that it’s not just our companies that are global. Read More
Are you leading the team you need?
Or leading the team you have?
As soon as you embark on something new or strategic, in those first moments you facing doing the new thing with the same people. Read More
I got this in a message from a former employee:
When I worked for you, I thought I was Superman.
It was wonderful to get that message.
But additionally, those 10 words sum up for me, in a pretty profound way, what I believe being a good leader is about. Read More
I’ve recently been writing about business leadership and strategy, and I began thinking about something one of my mentors taught me about being an executive.
He said, “the most important decision you make is when you choose WHO.” Read More
As managers, at some point we all
encounter an employee who frustrates us, and drains the life and energy out of the team.
When you are in this situation with someone, you know it in your heart that
you should act …
…particularly when they really annoy you … but you don’t act right away because you second guess yourself …
and you keep thinking… they really do some things very well… sometimes…
A colleague of mine shared this decision tree with me, and since then life has been easier. Read More
Last week I kicked off a series of articles about what good general managers do.
I keep finding myself talking to CEOs who are concerned that their new general managers (also directors and VP’s) just aren’t getting that they need to be working in different way now that they are in an executive level job. Read More
I often talk about the hazard of being work-horse.
If you are known for always getting a lot of work done and for being able to do an extraordinary amount of work personally, it is likely you are a work-horse. Read More
I find it interesting is that most companies do one of two extremes when it comes to succession planning:
1. Nothing at all
2. A very cumbersome process with lots of documents and checkpoints for multiple candidates which never amounts to anything. Read More
Money is the easiest and least personal way to motivate people — that is, if you have money.
If you don’t have money, you need to get down to the real business of making people actually care about what they are working on. Read More
Creative Thinking vs. Job SkillsOK, so I am stealing a story I read about 15 years ago in an airline magazine.
If anyone out there recognizes it and can help me attribute this please let me know!
Here is the story. Read More
