Paul J. Zak, PhD, Professor, Claremont Graduate University Fear or love? At the most basic level, these are a leader’s choices when seeking to motivate followers. Most managers, perhaps due to some hangover from the eighteenth century, lead by fear because, well, it works. Fear may not be explicit, though some managers still scream and […]
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Karin Hurt & David Dye, Authors, Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results Without Losing Your Soul The board cares about winning and this guy is helping you win. He gets it done. It’s hard to argue with the results. So what if he’s ruffling a few feathers… with his team, with his peers, with HR, with
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Ilene Marcus, Author, Managing Annoying People: 7 Proven Tactics To Maximize Team Performance How can leadership be a better job? As a boss, all eyes are on us whether we like it or not. Our key responsibility is to embody the soul of our company’s efforts; to display the values and commitment of our brand proposition. That’s
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Each year I aspire to teach my clients lessons that will help them improve their personal and professional lives and their businesses. But what many of them probably don’t realize is that I simultaneously learn as I teach. And even though I’ve been consulting for more than thirty-five years, each year and each client has
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Vincent Spivey Every CEO dreams to be the leadership material that their employees would want to stick to for the rest of their careers. Great employees are great coworkers, and it is the goal of the CEO to keep them and maintain a healthy and growing relationship with them. Letting some good people go and
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In Henry IV Part 1, Owen Glendover, the leader of the Welsh rebels joins the insurrection against King Henry. Glendower, a man steeped in the traditional lore of Wales, claims to command great magic. Therefore, mysterious and superstitious, he sometimes acts in response to prophecies and omens. In the play, Glendover boasts to Hotspur, “I
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Want to make your company a better place to work? Understanding the benefits of using humor appropriately is the first step, actualizing this knowledge the second. Here are some ways humor can help your organization become a place that the best people can do their best work—and have fun while they’re doing it: Diffuse a
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Nate Regier, PhD, Co-founder & CEO, Next Element Conflict is like electricity. It has a lot of potential energy. We use electricity to power our appliances and cell phones. Electricity is very dangerous as well. Anyone who’s been shocked by a bad power cord can testify to that! If you’re a bit of a thrill-seeker but don’t
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Lisa Messenger, Author, Daring & Disruptive When describing the life of a CEO, ‘busy’ doesn’t cut it. Be they at the start of their business journey when every dollar counts, or helming a team of hundreds, a CEO is usually spread thinner than that precious last scrape of Nutella. Budgets, reports, legal issues, people management
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Tim Brown, CEO, Nestle Waters North America Most of my peers and I know about MBWA (management by walking around) from Tom Peters’ and Robert Waterman’s classic 1982 book, In Search of Excellence. Not too long ago, I learned the term originated at Hewlett-Packard in the 1970s, when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard (who were insatiably curious,
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