Last week I posted some comments on a leader’s responsibility to shield workers from bad leadership from above them in the organization. To follow up a little more, I suggest reading Will Your Bad Boss Make You a Bad Boss, Too? by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman. Zenger and Folkman have done some …
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Dec 06 2013
Leadership and the Bad Boss
Everyone has a boss. CEOs answer to a board. Small business leaders always have to answer to the customers. When the boss is great, life is good for his or her subordinate leaders. When I’ve worked for good bosses, I was able to accomplish more, learn more, and I believe become a better …
Dec 04 2013
Leadership Lessons From the U.S. Government
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Ah the Affordable Care Act. Obamacare. The program that would give all citizens access to affordable health care. All we would have to do is log on to this easy to use website and buy a policy. If we liked the policy we already had, we didn’t need to do anything. Wait a …
Dec 02 2013
Engage! How Understanding Motivation Creates Engaged Workers
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Whether you’re in the U.S. or anywhere else, it’s good to take a few moments to say thank you for your blessings. I’m thankful for all of you who take a few minutes to read this blog. I’ve also been blessed with the opportunity to provide …
Nov 27 2013
Leadership Reading – Part 4
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For the final installment of this series let’s leave books and look at some other sources of information for leaders. The first is magazines. I get 13 different magazines and I almost never seem to catch up. Two of those are Fortune and Forbes. Both are business magazines that although they only sometimes …
Nov 25 2013
Millennials and Non-Millennials Working Together
Here’s a good article by John Egan. Take a few minutes to read12-Point Guide for Millennials and Non-Millennials on How to Work Side by Side. It provides some great ideas to help avoid the intergenerational conflict. Full disclosure. I’m quoted a couple of times. Thanks John for this great article.
Nov 22 2013
Leading Millennials
Send to Kindle“These young people just don’t understand. I really fear for our future.” Obviously a comment about the Millennial Generation right? Wrong. It’s actually a comment that we Baby Boomers heard a lot when we were entering the workforce. In fact, I’d guess that every generation has worried about what the next generation was …
Nov 20 2013
Leadership Reading – Part 3
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In this, the third part of a look at leadership books, I’ll turn to a little different genre; biographies and autobiographies. I like to read about how other people have handled the real issues of life. A word of caution though. Biographies are often written by authors who either have an ax to …
Nov 18 2013
What Do You Learn From Bad Leaders?
How do you really learn how to be a good leader? Do you learn what you need to know from books? Maybe those all day courses that cover everything you need to know in 6 hours. Or, maybe you have a coach. Those sources provide information, but when faced with the real situations …
Nov 13 2013
Leadership Reading – Part 2
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For the second part of this series on books, I’ll look at some that are a little different. Let’s start with Bad Leadership by Barbara Kellerman. One of my constant mantras is that leadership isn’t necessarily good. There’s good leadership and bad leadership. Kellerman makes this point very well with clear examples of …
